Uncle Tom's Cabin Argument On Slavery

It is estimated that around two to three million African American slaves were killed during the entire period of slavery, and most of them from the middle passage. There is a lot of controversy, surprisingly, about the way that slave masters treated their slaves, but Uncle Tom’s Cabin is used as a form of rhetoric to go against those beliefs. In Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe, the author conveys to the reader an argument that slavery is wrong and should be abolished, by illustrating the brutal treatment and actions the masters have toward their black slaves, the way a majority of religious people disagree with most laws toward slavery due to it being against their beliefs, and religion and faith in God giving a lot of the slaves …show more content…
An example of the words that are exchanged about the slaves is shown when two Mr. Shelby, a slaveholder, and Mr. Haley, a slave trader, discuss trading a trustworthy slave to recover debt between the owner and the trader. Haley believes that Tom, the slave, isn’t enough to cover the debt, suggesting to add in Harry, the child of Eliza and George, both slaves, along with Tom. Shelby rejects it first, stating ironically that he has a conscience and doesn’t want to take a child away from it’s mother, despite doing it anyways. Haley speaks of the slaves as they are objects, mentioning that black people don’t have as much emotions as white people, degrading them in this sense, which is a common belief in these times (ch 1). Also, the action of objectification is shown by Stowe when George describes the moment of his master telling him to drown his dog after feeding him scraps, due to the dog “eating up his expenses,” and gets whipped for not being able to follow through with the action. His master drowns the dog anyways, not having any remorse towards George (ch 3). Furthermore, another example of the treatment toward blacks is the way that slaveowners auction off the slaves by speaking about them as if they were a tool. This happens when Haley is selling Tom off to St. Claire’s father, …show more content…
Her points were made by illustrating the tough and outright wrongful treatment toward the slaves, with verbal and physical abuse. She also points out the way that most religious people were way against said treatment of slaves, or slavery all together, because how they believe the actions are against God. Stowe uses her book to show the slaves use of their religion to cope with the way their masters and racism affect them, their faith in God giving them motivation to keep pushing onto