Uncle Tom's Cabin Research Paper

Slavery was the worst problem that humanity could have been through and it kept happening even after the Civil War in the United States. In the classic novel, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, written by Harrier Beecher Stowe, there are a lot of situations in which slavery affected many characters but they always try to find a way to get out of it, his main character Uncle Tom experienced different stages of this practice from the educated, kind, and basically good-hearted man, Mr. Shelby, to the ruthlessly evil master of the Louisiana plantation, Simon Legree. Page one of the novel finds Uncle Tom in the middle of a conversation between Mr. Shelby and Mr. Haley; he wanted to buy Tom and little Harry. "I would rather not sell him, said Mr. Shelby, thoughtfully;

Mr. Shelby’s definition of "humane" in his treatment of slaves is completely different from Haley’s. "Lor bless ye, yes! These critters ain't like white folks, you know; they gets over things, only manage right." (Stowe 5). Mr. Haley expresses his opinion about how black people feel different than whites. Shelby wants to keep the family together and Haley manages his business. Haley remembers of the mother who killed herself and her child rather than allow him to sell them apart (Stowe 5). He doesn’t actually care about the woman’s situation, just about the economic problem it could cause. "It's done!" said Mr. Shelby, in a musing tone; and, fetching a long breath, he repeated, "It's done!" (Stowe 30). Mr. Shelby sold Uncle Tom and Harry promising that he will be treated well. According to Havard “the most dreadful part of slavery … is its outrages on the feeling

They can't live a normal life like a white, have their own house, job because they have to fulfill the need of their master and all they have can be taken away by his master the next day. Tom encourages two women to escape from Legree's house. “I hate him! –said Legree, that night, as he sat up in his bed; I hate him! And isn't he MINE? Can't I do what I like with him?” (Stowe 427). Legree wanted to inflict some much damage to Tom's body, so he could have a loyal slave to be oversees of the plantation. “Mas'r Legree, as ye bought me, I'll be a true and faithful servant to ye. I'll give ye all the work of my hands, all my time, all my strength; but my soul I won't give up to mortal man (Stowe 397).” Tom shows his loyalty to Legree but Legree was not able to get change his faith. “O, Mas’r! don’t bring this great sin on your soul. It will hurt you more than ‘twill me! Do the worst you can, my troubles’ll be over soon; but, if ye don’t repent, yours won’t neverend!” (Stowe 397). The death of a slave would cause more trouble to Legree because he would lose some money and hands to work the field. “Ye may whip me, starve me, burn me,-it'll only send me sooner where I want to go” (Stowe 397). Tom was sure about what he wanted, and his death will make it easy. No one could stop Legree from enforcing his slaves to do what he wanted. “I