The book Uncle Tom’s Cabin changed how Americans viewed slavery and how the system would treat people as property. In this book there are two plot lines that the story focuses on Tom, a strong, religious man, with a family, and Eliza who is Harry’s mother. Eliza who heard that her son is being sold off, she runs away and almost gets caught, but she is later reunited with her family and they travel north to Canada. Tom chose not to run away because he wanted to protect his family, but later on he is sold South. The novel ends where Tom and Eliza both escape from slavery; Eliza and her family reach Canada, but Tom’s freedom comes with death where he is whipped to death for not giving up information on where two fugitive women were hiding.
