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Uncle Tom's Cabin
(Harriet Beecher Stowe)

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Uncle Tom, George, Mr. Shelby, Little Eva, and


Simon Legree are just some of the characters in
Harriet


Beecher Stowe's pre-Civil War South novel Uncle
Tom's


Cabin. Uncle Tom's Cabin predominantly deals with
the


horror and inhumanity of slavery. Stowe strongly

expresses


that slavery destroys families and christian values.





Set in antebellum America the story follows
the


life of pious and humble slave Uncle Tom through
his

trials


and tribulations as a slave. A slave owner named
Shelby

is


forced to sell his treasured slave Uncle Tom and a

young


boy named Harry to settle his debts. Harry's
mother

can't


stand the fact of losing her son so she runs away

during


the middle of the night. Eliza and Harry are helped
by


various people and eventually end up in the Quaker


settlement Indiana. Tom who didn't flee isn't so

lucky.


Tom depends on the bible for comfort. On the way to

Haley's


plantation,Tom saves Eva St. Clare from drowning
and

her


father purchases him to show his thanks. Later on
Eva


becomes sick and senses she is going to die so she

gives


all the servants a lock of her gold hair and
implores

them


to become Christians. She insists that her father
sets

Tom


free and after her death he leans on Tom for
spiritual


guidance and support. Eva's father is fatally
wounded

when


he intervened in a drunken brawl at a bar and Tom's

chance


of freedom is gone. St. Clare's wife has Tom
auctioned


off to a yankee with a plantation down south named

Simon


Legree. Tom is beaten for refusing to whip a slave

woman,


Lucy. Cassy helps tend to Tom's wounds. Cassy
hides

with


another slave, Emmeline, in Legree's attic, trying
to

plan


an escape. Legree insists that Tom knows where
they're


hiding and beats him until he tells, but he never
does.


George, the son of Tom's first owner, makes it just
in

time


before Tom dies. After Tom's death, the young
Shelby

vows


to do whatever is within the power of one man to

abolish


slavery. He boards a steamer for Kemeets Cassy and


Emmeline, recently escaped. Through sheer
coincidence,

they


meet a Madame de Thoux on board. She is none other
then


George Harris' sister. Cassy is discovered to be

Eliza's


mother. The whole family is reunited in Canada.
Madame

de


Thoux finances George's education, and the entire
group


chooses to move to Liberia to fight slavery
practices

from


there. George Shelby returns to his mother's estate

and,


true to his promise, emancipates all his slaves.





Harriet Beecher Stowe set out to let
everyone know


exactly what was slavery and how human beings were

treated.


Stowe set out what she meant to accomplish and she
did

it


well. Uncle Tom's Cabin is extremely touching by
the


affection reader's have on Tom. Stowe wrote Uncle
Tom's


Cabin to make a point on how slavery affected
everyone

and


how bad slavery was. Stowe got her point across to
her


reader's by establishing a well-mannered, spiritual

person


like Tom and showing reader's that even bad things

happen


to "good" slaves. Especially, when Tom is beaten
and

later


dies due to the beaten he got from his slave owner

Legree.


Stowe made Uncle Tom's Cabin more realistic on
slavery

when


she uses two women speaking of the slaves and one

believing


slavery is wrong and the other believing that
slaves

are


better off slaves than they are better free because

they


have free food,shelter,etc. Stowe also states very
good in this


conversation that some slaves are better off but
not

most


slaves because most slaves have very cruel slave

owner's


and some even beat their slaves to the point of
death.


Tom'at the lady was
stating


about death and how slavery was bad. Stowe used an

example


like this because it was how most people in this
time


thought slavery was. A lot of people believed that

slaves


were a lot better off being slaves while some
believed

that


slaves needed to be free. Uncle Tom's Cabin was
written

to


show people the "dark" side of slavery and open

discussion


on slavery. By Stowe writing Uncle Tom's Cabin it

started


an uprising about slavery and people begin
discussing


it more and it later began the Civil War. Uncle
Tom's

Cabin


is very tear-jerking and heart warming.







In Conclusion, Uncle Tom's Cabin is one of
the best


books ever and expresses nothing but views on
slavery.

In


Uncle Tom's Cabin you will notice that slavery is

expressed


as an evil that must be resisted. Ignoring slavery
is

as


destructive as practicing it. Slavery is damaging
to


families by tearing them apart like Eliza and Harry
and

it


is also damaging to our christian values by making
us


believe that there is only one GOD on "their" side

meaning


whites.



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