Professor: Sheryl Crawford
16 Nov 2017
Uncle Tom´s Cabin
Uncle Tom’s Cabin is a book against slavery, in which slaves are control over masters. Some masters treat their slaves well. However, slave trade is one of many things that masters do with them in order to reduce or pay a debt, a number of slaves might get a chance to escape to another country or state where slavery is prohibit, some of them might be able to leave and stay in safe houses, and if a slave escaped, the master would make an advertisement about the slave that escaped and would reward a person who founded dead or alive.
Slave trade was a big deal during this time period. “You ought to let him cover the whole balance of the debt; and you would, Haley, if you had any conscience.” Mr. Shelby for example he traded a valuable guy named Tom, he was a religious guy and also One the most trustworthy, honest, and hard working men who he could trust. Mr. Shelby traded him, and everything just to pay off his debts. Traders would not take men and women only, “well, you’ll let me have the boy, …show more content…
George working in a shop and young Harry now a fine young little man had been enrolled in a good school, they even conceived another beautiful girl who was named after her mother Eliza and as we can see they lived a content marital life in which they go back to Africa.
Overall Uncle Tom’s Cabin is based on how masters who owned slaves would trade them to pay off their debts and would refuse to give them freedom. Some slaves had the opportunity to escape and stay in safe houses or going out of state such as Ohio where slavery was not allowed.
Works Cited
“Facts about the Slave Trade and Slavery.” The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, www.gilderlehrman.org
Stowe Harriet Beecher. Uncle Tom’s Cabin.