Uncle Tom's Cabin Book Report

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Uncle Tom’s Cabin is a historical book written by Harriet Beecher Stowe. She describes her own experiences about slavery and ones that she has witnessed in the past through the text in her novel. Harriet grew up in Cincinnati where she had a very close look at how slavery was. Located on the Ohio River across from the slave state Kentucky, the city was filled with former slaves and their masters. Uncle Tom is a high-minded, hard working Christian black slave to a nice and kind family named the Shelbys. The Shelbys had difficulties with money and were in debt, they had no choice but to sell Tom to a slave trader. Young George Shelby does not want Tom to go but he promises that someday he will buy Tom so he can become free again. Harriet’s novel reveals that Tom suffered from slavery, had a religious fortitude, and even in slavery he had freedom.
Throughout Stowe 's novel Tom encounters a lot of pain and suffrage from being held into slavery. The Shelbys sell Tom to a slaveholder named Simon Legree. He is a cruel master and wants to break Tom. One day, Legree tells Tom to whip a former slave in order to make him a
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Slavery was a time where people suffered harsh beatings, working all day and night, and an era where no one wants to go back. It was a time where life was not fair for people and where half of America begged for equality. Uncle Tom’s Cabin was written for a specific purpose, to demonstrate the “living dramatic reality” of slavery, as author Harriet Beecher Stowe put it. Many people, especially those in the North, had no clue what was happening on the other side of the country. They did not know the day-to-day hardships of African Americans living in slavery, and literary works could provide these details in the form of exciting, dramatized stories. Back then it was easy being free and turning into a slave the next day. This novel acknowledges Toms suffrage, religious fortitude, and

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