Uncle Tom's Cabin Research Paper

Throughout the ages of time slavery has evolved from one thing to another and in very different forms. This generation is slavery based through labor and sex trafficking whether it is acknowledged or not. Even though people have seen movies, learned in school, and heard stories about slavery there is not a true connection to what life was like for a typical slave. “Uncle Tom’s Cabin”, written by Harriet Beecher Stow, begs to differ when being shown in even the littlest audiences. Not only does it point out how pitiful slavery was, it shows what jobs, living conditions, and relationships in slavery was like by a slave named Tom who worked at three different plantations during his life. To begin with, Uncle Tom finds himself and his family at the Shelby plantation owned by Arthur and Emily Shelby with their son George Shelby. The Shelby’s are all very kind, loving, and respect their slaves. In fact, George is Tom’s closest friend at this plantation. Toms living quarters are nice and contain chairs, tables, doors, windows, a stove/fireplace, and a bed. He has resources such as a river, and a

His relationship with Tom is horrible and it is suggested that Simon was jelous of tom, which is one of the reasons Tom gets beatings for no reason. Toms living quarters really is not something to brag about, for it was pretty much a shack with no doors or windows, and a bed made out of hay. His clothes are dirty and soiled the whole time at the plantation. Uncle Tom was hungary with no reasources of food. Fastforward to three years later after tom is sold into slavery, he gets a brutal beationg for not telling mr.legree where his sister-like friend went when she ran away withanother slave. George Shelby eventually comes to take tom home but the lord took him before he could because of the brutal beating tom had