Of Plymouth Plantation Book Report

The story takes pace in Kentucky with a farmer named Arthur Shelby who is in debt and might lose everything. He and his wife respect their slaves and treat them with care but must sell two in order to make ends meet. Arthur decides to sell Uncle Tom and harry. The husband then tells his wife about the agreement he has made and the wife is distraught because she had promised the mother she would not sell the son. However the mother had overheard the whole conversation and warns tom and then flees up north hoping to find freedom. They try to pursue the slave but the other slaves had warned them of their approach ahead of time. The wife of the farmer then hires a slave hunter to find the slave and bring them back. The slaves make their way to a Quaker settlement where they agree to get them to safety. While this is going on Uncle Tom is sold and taken on the boat by the slave trader, while on the boat he meets a little girl who becomes friends with him. She then falls into the river and Uncle Tom dives in to save her. The little girl’s father then decides to buy Uncle Tom and takes them to their home in New Orleans where the family grows extremely attached to him. Meanwhile the mother and son and still heading north when they encounter the slave hunter and shoot him they then decide to take him to the next settlement to be healed. Back in New Orleans there is a dispute between the families as their cousin who opposes slavery comes. The …show more content…
This book had sparked many debates on how it should be taken and pushed many northerners to fight against slavery with even more of a sense of purpose. This story although its age is still a very well written book which gets the reader deeply involved into the story line and makes you feel the struggle of the slaves and what they had to go through during their everyday