One of his many glorious moments is when he says: "You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man (107)." Douglass' audience does not see a black man before them, but a saint.
Harriet Beacher Stowe lacks Douglass' scholastic command, utilizing emotional appeal instead. However, her use of pathos is effective in retaining attention and collecting compassion in her verbose work. This lack of logos allows her to pursue and invite a broad based audience which can address the issue of slavery more effectively. A particular group of readers she successfully reaches are women, slaves, and religious people. When revealing the darker side to servitude though, she does not necessarily petition to those of authority who can bring about change due to her lack of firsthand knowledge and the additional elements of fiction that skew the integrity of the slave experience. Nevertheless her fictional elements are necessary because she cannot display direct bias against slavery like Douglass can with his personal accounts "instead, she uses it as a tool to protest human subjugation. Her construction of enslavement proves beneficial because it has a hint of romanticism which downplays the brutality of southern life. This strategy makes it possible to attract the Southern population as well as their white counterparts in the North by allowing white superiority and philanthropy to indirectly prevail throughout the novel. In a psychological context, Stowe may have intentionally created characters whom readers want to identify with and emulate like wise, angelic Eva or respectable, benevolent Mr. Bird. Her use of illustrious imagery, emotional engagement, and religious revelation create a personal acquaintance and attachment to the characters.
Further scrutinizing the aspects of slavery exhibit dramatically different justifications to end it for Douglass and Stowe.
