Through out the course of this semester poiltics seems to be an underlying cause for all pieces we have read. An while many people in the early age of America believed in involvement of the people in government, It was not all as radical as it appears to be today. Though through the written word many such as Harriet Beacher Stowe, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Washington Irving, and others were able to reach those who before could not be. This act alone can be seen as political involvement. And from what can be seen by the examination of the effects these pieces had they had a tremendous affect on American politics.

Further investigation into the literature concerning politics shows that much like today there were those authors out right demanding change, those who did not mean for their work to be political, and those who hid political agendas as thinly veiled characters. This shows that todays political dissenters and supporters are much like those when this country first began. Authors ,such as Fredrick Douglass, take a more outright and aggresive approach. This is representative of many groups , who throughout history, show a ferverent intrest in the political system and the furtherence of the society as a whole.   Though there were those slaves who took a non violent stand point on the issue of slavery in there contributions to American literature and from there American politics. Such as the work of Gustavus Vassa  

As shown here in this drawing, many elements showed the political and moral points of slavery from a racist point of view. While these may have had some effect on those with less education, those who picked up Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin, found that slavery represented from a slaves point of view a much more affective catalyst. Often stated that Stowe was the little lady that started the Civil War, she set out to start a war only to point out the moral and ethical issues of white christians owning slaves.  Though a thinly vialed pressure on slavery. Many such pieces such as Stowe's Cabin, and this picture here, had a profound affect on the masses. Both that of the educated and that of the uneducated.