"Uncle Tom's Cabin

Author: Harriet Beecher Stowe
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Publish Date: 2004-05-01
Features: Selling the black slave Tom and little Harry — this was Mr. Shelby's helpless choice, as only this could help him pay off his debts. But what choice should the black slave make at this moment? Harry's parents chose to take the young boy and flee to a distant land in pursuit of freedom; Uncle Tom chose to bury his pain beneath resignation and accept the cruel fate. During the process of being sold by slave traders, the kind-hearted Tom saved a drowning girl — the lovely Eva, and thus he gained a second master. Just as his life took a turn for the better, his masters one after another, and Tom was sold to his third master — Legree, who was known for his cruelty. Tom's "upright and loyal" resistance became a thorn in the side of his new master. And just when one crisis was subsiding, another arose. The female slaves Cassy and Emmeline escaped, which undoubtedly accelerated Tom's death, as Legree believed it was all Tom's doing.