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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 …show more content…

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

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Uncle Tom and George have a different fates , and Mrs. Stowe made a big contrast with the two different people . Uncle Tom is honest and honest , because of his faith , Christianity . He is also committed to being a slave , dedicated to his master , but cause his justice , he is not determined to be unjust and unfeeling . He always gets respect from others . On the other hand , In the Mrs. Stowe 's novel George is handsome , clever , brave , justice and very eager to freedom .

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Stowe implies that Christianity that denounces the immortality of slavery, which leads those who support the institution isolated. Uncle Tom’s cabin is also based on a slave who struggled during slavery and eventually escaped to Canada. By relating slavery through the eyes of a slave itself and by focusing on the ones struggle to find freedom for not only herself but her child made Stowe’s book did so much more than try to persuade people to oppose slavery but made a heart touching story for anyone struggling to fight for their own freedom.

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Since Legree can not take out his anger on the women, he settles for Tom instead, demanding Tom knows where they are. Tom says he would rather die than give up the information, and after hesitation, Legree beats Tom all night. Legree then gives the job over to his overseers, where even through pain, Tom tells them of Jesus, saving them. In Tom’s last moments alive, he is visited by his old friend George Shelby. George then threatens and hits Legree, pledging to do all he can to try to abolish slavery.

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1) Uncle Tom is a very heroic and courageous man. He always prays to God and finds a way to keep his faith. As the novel goes on, the cruel treatment that Tom suffers makes him question his belief in a God, but Tom keeps holding on to his faith. 2) Uncle Tom represents all the African Americans that were forced to be slaves. Uncle Tom was meant to be a generalization, of how poorly the slaves were treated.

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Firstly, before he was sold, Tom was treated relatively well by his masters, The Shelbys. For example, Tom is even taught to read and write by George, the son of Mr. Shelby (Stowe, 1852, p. 68). Furthermore, when Tom leaves with the slave trader Mr. Haley to be sold, George Shelby gives Tom a dollar coin, showing his family’s care for Tom (p. 171). Similarly, after he is sold, Tom is treated relatively well by his new master, Augustine St. Clare. For instance, right after Tom is sold to St. Clare, Eva, the daughter of St. Clare, remarks that “Papa is very good to everybody” (Stowe, 1852, p. 238).

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Because of this Eva’s father ends up buying Tom for her. Tom and Eva grow fond of each other, and Eva treats her slaves well, even teaching one to read. Eva soon grows ill and dies of tuberculosis, leaving the whole St. Clare family and its slaves devastated. Tom is then promised his freedom, but Mr. St Clare is killed before he manages to finish all the papers. Tom is then sold to Simon Legree who is very violent to his slaves, and even tries to harden Tom into being an overseer for the plantation, which doesn’t work.

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