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UNCLE TOM’S CABIN

1. Book’s title: Uncle Tom’s Cabin.
Author’s name: Harriet Beecher Stowe.
Copyright date: 1996.
Number of pages: 379.

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Uncle Tom’s Cabin allows us to have a concept about the conditions in which slaves lived during the 1850s. The book opens as Arthur Shelby, a farmer with financial problems, decides to sell Tom, a faithful and good man, to a slave trader named Mr. Haley in order to avoid financial ruin. Mr. Haley thought that Shelby’s offer was not enough to pay all his debts, so Shelby decided to sell Harry, the five year old son of his wife’s favorite slave, Eliza. When Eliza heard about this agreement she ran away with his son to Canada. Meanwhile, Uncle Tom was taken in a boat to Mississippi to be transported to a slave market. On the boat, a little girl name Eva fell into the river and Tom saved her becoming close friends with the girl and with her father Agustin St. Clare. St. Clare agreed to buy Uncle Tom as their salve. The time Tom lived with little Eva wasn’t bad; they didn’t mistreated him nor exploited him. Unfortunately, Eva died of sickness and asked his father to set free all their slaves before her death. When St. Clare was about to accomplish his daughter …show more content…

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