Uncle Tom's Cabin, By Harriet Beecher Stowe

In Harriet Beecher Stowe controversial book, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, published in 1852, both racism and racialism and present in the characters and in her narrative, however they prevail in different settings. According to The Real Ken Jones, racism is a belief in inherent hierarchical differences among different races, where one believes their own race is superiors. Racialism, however, is the belief in racial differences, but one believes there is no hierarchy between the different races. Racialist comments and stereotypes are more prevalent in modern day society, and to some people are less offensive than racist remarks. In Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Stowe presents a range of characters with racist views and remarks, and sometimes depicts characters in a racist tone, but her own narrative is racialist, similar to views of society in her time.
On one end of the spectrum, there is Tom Legree; a plantation owner in the South who treats his slaves barbarically, as if they are on the same level as animals. When Stowe writes from his perspective, she includes racist remarks and Tom and other characters are talked about in violent ways. The racist remarks are not her point of view, but rather how she imagines some plantation owners and people in the South to act and talk. These depictions help build the story, and the underlying theme of abolition because many readers related to it when it was published, either knowing someone, or being the person, and they realized how gruesome it