Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe: Chapter Analysis

Harriet Beecher Stowe's 19th century novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin, gives an unimaginable knowledge into slavery practiced throughout America during the Civil War era. During this time southerners used slave labor to produce crops, especially cotton, because after Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin cotton became king. Only a few Southerners actually had slaves and actually treated them like family. The other Southerners treated their slaves like dirt and worked them to death. Although slavery was illegal in the Northern states, only a few Northerners actively opposed it. In the beginning of the novel the story takes place on the Shelby plantation in Kentucky and has one story line but eventually the story breaks up into two different plots. The two plots the story follows, is that of a faithful Negro servant being sold and traded in the ruthless southern slave markets, and that of a runaway slave fleeing for freedom in Canada. In the first chapter of the novel the author shows the differences point of views in the southern and northern men. By reading that first chapter you can tell the novel is going to support the northerner's view on slavery. Uncle Tom, the

Slaves like Prue and Topsy discovered that somebody cherishes them and in the novel that love is the love of God through Tom's teaching. One can notice how Tom's faith allows him to be a social leader among the slaves he drew in. Tom's Christ-like nature has additionally helped him in dangerous circumstances. When Tom was bought by Legree he was always being beaten by Legree and his slaves, while being beat Tom always thought about God and was never afraid to die because he believed if he died at that time, there was a reason behind it. "There'll be the same God there, Chloe, that there is here." (Stowe, 95) After Tom experienced various interest, he brought more people to Christ. After he completed his mission he died as a man of