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Uncle Tom's Cabin: An Analysis
Beginning of Essay
“The book, Uncle Tom's Cabin, is thought of as a fantastic, even
fanatic, representation of Southern life, most memorable for its emotional
oversimplification of the complexities of the slave system,” says Gossett
(4). Harriet Beecher Stowe describes her own .... Middle of Essay
.... was an unexpected factor in the dispute between the North and South.
The book sold more than 300,000 copies during the first year of publication,
taking thousands of people, even our nation's leaders, by surprise.
Mr. Shelby is a Kentucky plantation owner who is forced by debt to
sell two of his slaves to a trader named Haley. Uncle Tom, the manager of
the plantation, understands why he must be sold. The other slave marked for
sale is Harry, a four-year-old. His mother, Mrs. Shelby's servant, Eliza,
overhears the news and runs away with the little boy. She makes her way up
to the Ohio River, the boundary with the free state of Ohio. In Ohio,
E ....
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