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Tom gets to Simon Legree. That immediately makes him change into rough clothes of a slave, and his stuff sells the sailors the ship on which he was going home. Plantation slaves Legris new lodge in miserable huts, where it is so crowded that no room to swing fall. Sleep here on the ground, having spread a little straw. The diet is very meager: after exhausting labor in the cotton harvest - only one cake of cornmeal.
Once the cotton harvest leaves beautiful, stately quadroon Cassie, the mistress of the owner. It works very quickly, helping the weak and lagging. Tom is also divided harvested cotton - Lucy, mulatto patient. In the evening, the owner, seeing the good work Tom, decides to appoint his supervisor and to start to make him want to flog
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Her father was a wealthy planter, and get a good education. However, his father died and did not have time to give her his freedom. It was bought by a young man whom she loved and by whom she had two children, but he got into debt, sold it, too. Children taken away from her, and she began to move from one host to another. Cassie has a great influence on Legris and persuades him to leave Tom alone - at least during the field work.
For Eliza George nearing hour long-awaited freedom. Struck by their generosity, Tom Locker (recovered, he decided to give up the hunt for people to do and bear hunting) warns them that the ship on which they are going to cross into Canada, they can wait for the detectives. Then Eliza disguised in men's suit; Harry dressed up girl and give time to Mrs. Smith, a white Canadian woman who returns to his homeland. They manage to safely get across the border to the town of Lake Erie Amherstberg where they stay in the house of the local priest.
And in the estate Legris Tom vain waiting news from the old masters. Cassie invites him to kill the host, but he did not want to take a sin. He also refuses to run, but the box office with a new lover Aegri young Emmeline plotting to escape. Pretending that ran to the marshes, women hiding in the attic, causing all the inhabitants of the estate, including Legris,

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