Uncle Toms Cabin Essay

Uncle Tom’s cabin is the story about slaves in the early America. Since it is the story happened in the plantation, there must be masters to make the novel became true and let people believe in the ideas that author want to say to the society. Masters was also a very important element in this novel because the living condition and treatment of Uncle Tom’s changes with different masters.

In the very first beginning, uncle Tom was under master Shelby’s control. Shelby was the first master to uncle Tom and he has stay with Shelby since he was a boy. He had been promised his wife that he won’t sold their slaves. However, they were facing the financial problem and he needed to pay for some debt. Under that background, the whole novel began. It …show more content…
Clare as a result. St. Clare was Eva’s father and bought Uncle Tom eventually. St. Clare is a nice master who even gave all his black slaves silver coin after his long journey and say them again. He liked to make jokes with all his friends. Sometime his joke sounds satirized, but he said it from truly kind heart. When Tom first came to the family, he ordered Adolph, the man who organize all slaves and give them jobs, not to scare Tom in the way he used to do because he thought that might make he feel unpleasant and nervous. St Clare also understood and didn’t prevent his daughter Eva to kiss their slaves to express the happiness and love when they see them again after a long time. Later he even made the promise to set all the salves in his plantation free which was absolutely can’t be understood during that time, especially for other plantation owners, including Legree, Tom’s next master. St. Clare died during a war before he freed all his slaves and so Tom was then sold to Legree. Legree was quite different from Tom’s first two masters and was a very bad master. He and some other plantation owners use some words in Bible to make slavery follow the mind of God which is actually not. Legree also treat his slaves badly and beat them if he thought they didn’t work …show more content…
Both Shelby and St. Clare treat Tom nice but Shelby sold Tom at last; St. Clare promised Tom freedom but died before he managed to do that; Legree treat Tom badly and watched him dead. The three different masters appeared in the novel as long as the story goes on and the whole story was carried on due to the evil system of slavery. Tom will live longer if he didn’t been sold to Legree; Tom will still live as a friend to his master if St. Clare didn’t die; Tom could stay in his first place he been in America if Shelby didn’t have a lot of debt; even more, Tom could still stay in Africa with freedom if there’s no slavery. So the whole system caused the bad life for Uncle Tom and even more slaves not are not written in the