Uncle Tom's Cabin, By Harriet Beecher Stowe Essay

In Harriet Beecher Stowe’s, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, she is trying to voice the harsh reality of slavery, and that with divine love for christianity even the work of the devil, such as slavery, can be ended. She illustrates these points by describing the inhumane reality of slaves and slave families, showing the lengths that a parent would go to from being separated from their child, and that with true love for christianity no one, even in those harsh conditions, can be broken.
To emphasize the cruel way slaves were treated, Beecher Stowe opens the novel with a conversation between a slave owner, Mr. Shelby, and a slave trader Mr Haley. They are conversing about buying and selling two slaves, as if they are animals or pieces of property and not human
At the beginning of the novel a slave mother, named Eliza, learns that her son, Harry, is going to be traded. Her husband, a man named George Harris, has run away and is completely unaware of the danger is son is in. Distraught Eliza runs away with her son in her arms and crosses a frozen Ohio river. The metaphorical leap across the river wasn’t easy as she struggles and suffers across the jagged and cold river in order to keep her son safe(P60). Another example of this is Harry’s father, George Harris. He was a smart, innovative man whose master grew jealous of, this lead to the beating of George to the point to where he had to run away from his family in hopes that he would become free and buy their freedom one day. The sacrifice that George had to make on his struggle to become a free man included disguising himself to be able to walk into a tavern with multiple slave hunters all looking for George. Also once he is reunited with his wife and son in order to protect them he has to shoot a slave catcher Tom Loker(P90,323). Finally, once they are all together George disguises both Harry and Eliza and they are back on their way to freedom. They all find their to Canada to live out their