Uncle Tom's Cabin

Uncle Tom's Cabin is a historical fiction is inspired by the life of Josiah Henson. It is a novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe and was first published in 1852. Uncle Tom's Cabin is wholly about slavery, how slaves were treated and how they lived. Christianity, the incompatibility with slavery and Christian beliefs, and the outright evilness of slavery are recurring themes.

Through Uncle Tom's Cabin, Stowe provides a prime example of the golden rule in storytelling, and that is "show, don't tell." From this book you will see how terrified someone can be; how strong, brave and courageous someone can be, and how utterly distraught and broken down someone can be. It's almost as if you can feel the their own fears, hate and disgust. Even though this book involves the terrible practice of slavery, you will still meet some ethically moral slave owners who did not beat or harm their slaves. This, though, was a rarity. Several such examples were that of Mr. Shelby, the man who owned our protagonist, Uncle Tom,
I'm going to give all of you a curl of my hair; and, when you look at it, think that I loved you and am gone to heaven, and that I want to see you all there."(251) Now, Tom had got one of these curls and he treasured it dearly, Miss Eva, in fact, was the reason St. Clare bought Tom in the first place, for she liked Tom and wanted her Father to buy him for her; they became an almost inseparable