The Role Of Christianity In Uncle Tom's Cabin

Uncle Tom's Cabin, a novel published in 1852, that described the horrible detriments of slavery, was written by Harriet Becher Stowe. Stowe, being a deeply devout Christian, made no mistake inserting multiple correlations with her faith in God when writing this book. One might question if Stowe wrote this novel with the intentions of combining two somewhat uncomfortable and very different topics; faith and slavery. The book, Uncle Tom's Cabin, had many representations of Christianity, presented in all different types of forms. First, a well-known slave owner, Mr. Shelby and his wife, fell into some economic troubles. These troubles resulted in Mr. Shelby having to take some drastic measures he did not want to do in order to relieve himself of his debt. Mr. Shelby and his wife were forced to sell two of their best slaves, Tom and Harry. The Shelby family was not like most slave owners, in the fact that they treated their slaves with respect, and in return, the slaves loved working for them. This first shows us an example of Christian morals in the novel. In the Bible, Jesus commanded that his followers love their brother, …show more content…
What He meant was that just like children can easily trust in someone or something much easier than an adult (who has learned to question most everything), people should simply place their trust in the Lord. Also, just as a child has no achievements or accomplishments to offer someone, no one has any achievements or accomplishments to offer in return for acceptance into heaven. One could say that Stowe used the slaves as an example of a child, in which the slaves exhibited "childlike