s his freedom, he states that “the whole splendid continent of Africa opens before us [black people] and our children. Our nation shall roll the tide of civilization and Christianity along its shores,… (Stowe 436).” George makes a claim that the nation he belongs to is Africa and calls it his nation. In reality, most freed black people believed that they belonged in the United States. This is where they had lived and worked their entire lives and they did not wish to be shipped off to some foreign land where they did not know the ways or the customs. These blacks believed that they were Americans, not Africans. Stowe holds a common misconception of white people that black people would be better off in their ‘home’ climate. Almost every freed slave in Uncle Tom’s Cabin moves to Africa, even Topsy, a young black woman. Topsy was approved “as a missionary to one of the stations in Africa, and we have heard that the same activity and ingenuity which, when a child, made her so multiform and restless in her developments, is now employed, in a safer and wholesomer (sic) manner, in teaching the children of her own country (Stowe 438).” Once again Stowe makes the statement that Africa is the natural homeland of black people and that Topsy is teaching her ‘own people’.Lincoln and Stowe are quite similar in their racist attitude toward black people. They believed that while blacks had basic human rights, they were in no way equal to white people. This was the most widely held outlook among emancipation supporters. Malcolm X, on the other hand, had an entirely different way of seeing the issue. Malcolm X was himself a black man who lived during the mid-twentieth century. Blacks during this period were no longer fighting for their freedom from slaveholders, but for the enforcement of the rights granted to them under the Constitution. While blacks had been given rights under t...
