Uncle Tom's Cabin

Uncle Tom’s Cabin Summary

Uncle Tom's Cabin starts out with Arthur Shelby "a man who is flooded with debt" who makes a deal with man named Haley "a course slave trader." Arthur agrees to sells two of his slaves, Tom and Harry. Of course he is reluctant in doing so because he and his wife have a good relationship with their slaves. Later when he tells his wife about the deal he made she is utterly shocked for not only did he promise Harry's mother
,Eliza, that he would not be sold but that he also promised Tom that he was going to set him free after he had passed away. No matter how much she plead he said that this was how he had to be. While Arthur and Emily are discussing the situation Eliza eavesdrops on them and decides to do
He is instantly beloved and valued in the St.Clare household, he also becomes really close friends with Eva. At this time we see George and Eliza on a constant run from Loker and his men. One night Loker caught up to them, so George shot him in his side, the other slave hunters retreated. Being the nice person Eliza is however she decided to have him healed up at the next settlement. Now we return to St.Clare who is talking about slavery with his cousin Ophelia. She opposed slavery but has deep prejudices against blacks while St.Clare feels no hostility towards blacks but tolerates slavery because he believes that he can not do anything about it. In an attempt to help Ophelia overcome her intolerance he buys Topsy, a young black girl who was abused by her previous owner and sets it up so Ophelia is supposed to educate her.
Ophelia greatly despises Topsy because of her ignorance towards learning or behaving. Two years after Tom has arrived at the St.Clare household and Eva begins to grow very ill. She cut off all her hair and gathered all the slaves together, she said her goodbyes and have everyone one of her curls, not long after she dies. Eva's death affects a
Tragically before he could act on his decision, he was stabbed to death during a brawl between two drunken men. After his death his cruel wife Marie sends Tom to a horrible plantation owner named Simon
Legree. Tom is then taken to Rural Louisiana with a group of new slaves.
One of the slaves is named Emmeline who Legree bought to be his new sex slave. Legree starts to loathe Tom after he refused to whip another slave when ordered. He is then severely beaten, Legree decides his goal is to crush Tom's faith in God. A girl name Cassie comes to his aid after
Legree left. She then explains to him her tale of woe. When she was younger her children were taken away and sold so the next time she was

pregnant she killed the child in fear of losing that one as well. Around the same time George, Eliza, and Harry make the last cross over to Canada and they at last have obtained their freedom, Loker was also with them because he became a changed man after being healed by Quackers and not left to die. Back in Louisiana though, things weren't going so well, Tom was beginning to lose his faith. Except one night he had a vision, God