Uncle Tom's Cabin Thesis

Uncle Tom’s Cabin was, and still is an inspiration to most. It starts with the struggles of a Kentucky farmer, Mr. Shelby, who falls into a debt that needs to be cleared. He turns to a salve trader, Mr. Haley, who discusses that he will need to sell two of his slaves. Thus having a kind and respectful relationship with his slaves, he has no other choice then to sell. The tow slaves of his choice are indeed, Uncle Tom, and a young son of Mrs. Shelby’s maid Eliza, Harry. However Eliza escapes with Harry after hearing that her son will be sold. They certainly obtain obstacles but overcome them. Uncle Tom being a middle aged man with a wife and children, is taken away by Mr. Haley to a slave market where he was sold to a man very grateful of him.
He is soon then sold to another plantation in New Orleans due to an accident of his other owner. In New Orleans, Uncle Tom is invaluable and promised to be set free. Sadly, his new master is killed and he is sold once more to someone far more evil. The vicious plantation owner, Simon Legree, takes Uncle Tom to Louisiana. Uncle Tom, being an honest and faithful man, never lost hope and stayed to himself. Despite the beatings and torture he endured he always stayed the Tom he truly was.
Harriet Beecher Stowe really captured the life of an American Slave.
Even though some thought it did not give a definite and accurate view of a slave, it showed life events and how cruel and horrible life was. It defines the mistreatment of people who did not deserve mistreatment and the actions that man could do to man. This book gives readers an insight of the situations they were put in and that slaves were people too. Stowe has made an impact on many people’s lives from this book and made them see things that they may not have seen before. I know I have definitely taken this era for granted, and I know see that times were hard but always have hope, like Uncle Tom. Readers also view that not all white men believed the thought of slaves as pure property. There was actually people at this time who treated slaves as family and equals. This novel really shared a story of true impacts and novelty that Uncle Tom plays. Uncle Tom’s Cabin is a great book that should be shared to anyone, and I definitely recommend it. Is has changed the views of slavery and made people see the sickness that was present. Stowe’s goal was to show people, her readers, what a curse slavery was to our nation and she was accomplished it. Stowe knows firsthand about slavery. She has been exposed to slavery since she was young and many times before. Stowe has been given personal evidence of the unlawful acts of slavery, and has even heard stories from former enslaved people. She used the information that she was given and her own encounters to write such a riveting novel of the acts of
slavery.