Uncle Tom's Cabin Essay

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Everyone who is learning about slavery should know the important facts and should be able to watch the film Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Uncle Tom’s Cabin is a film based on the book Uncle Tom’s Cabin by: Heather beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom’s Cabin jumps back and forth between Eliza and Tom’s story.

Eliza is a slave who ran away because her owner had to sell her son to make so money because is plantation is losing money. So Eliza took her son Jimmy and is running away to the North. Tom is a slave who worked on the same plantation as Eliza. Tom was sold to so is owner Mr. Shelby could pay off his debt. The slave trader arrived and had to go and hunt down Eliza and Jimmy to bring them back.

Tom was getting ready to be taken by the slave trader. The slave owner returned to the
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They made it across the river and to freedom. Eliza ended up passing out from being tired and hungry. A man found her and Jimmy and brought them back to his village where the feed them and reunited Eliza with her husband and Jimmy’s father George. They all made to freedom. So know back Tom was working for Mr. St.Claire who was kind to Tom, But Mr. Saint Claire’s wife was a snop.
She only cared about herself. Well long story short Eva became very ill and passed away but as she lied on her deathbed she told her dad to promise to give Tom his freedom and he promised. Later that night Mr.Saint Claire was stabbed and passed. So Tom wasn’t getting his freedom and Tom was sold a third owner. Tom worked for him for three years and one day his owner got mad because Tom wouldn’t tell him were two of his slaves went. So his owner had him flogged ( whipped). Will they whipped so much that he almost died and a couple of days later a Christopher Shelby came to buy Tom back but Tom died in Christopher’s arms but before he passed away he told Chris that he was free. Chris was so mad that he punched Toms third owner into the mud and left with Tom in the back of his horse

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