Abraham Lincoln said this to Harriet Beecher Stowe upon meeting her in 1862. ... Cassy had always kept over Legree the kind of influence that a strong, impassioned woman can ever keep over the most brutal man (401). ... The most horrid is the cruel treatment of Tom by his final master, Legree. Because of his jealousy towards Tom's faith and obedience, Legree developed hatred towards him. ... Although Tom was the better man, Legree ended Tom's life simply because he could. ...

• Word Count: 1246
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Pulling away from the kind masters, Stowe takes her reader into the Legree plantation, where the evil of slavery appears in its most hideous form. ... Stowe demonstrates that the system of slavery and the moral code of Christianity oppose each other. ... In contrast, the nonreligious Legree practices slavery and treats them inhumanely. ... Moreover, when Uncle Tom is beaten to death by Legree and his men, he dies forgiving them. ... Then she presents the shocking wickedness of slavery at its worst, which in this case is the Legree plantation. ...

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• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

Harriet Beacher Stowe lacks Douglass' scholastic command, utilizing emotional appeal instead. ... On the contrary, Stowe caters to the white ego. ... It is if she means to say artfully," There are more generous slave owners than not, but it is those inhumane few like Simon Legree that make slavery go away altogether a must. ... Stowe also lauds feminism by awarding strong roles to her female characters. ... Stowe refuses to portray alcoholism as a result of coercion, but of personal choice and need. ...

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Stowe's novel focuses on slavery in these southern states. ... Stowe showed that not all slavery was harsh by showing that there were kind masters as Mr. ... The novel, however, also showed that slavery could be cruel by introducing a character by the name of Simon Legree. ... Simon Legree became Tom's third master after Mr. ... Simon Legree abused his slaves, and eventually killed Tom in the end, making him the quintessential villain of the novel. ...

• Word Count: 726
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

Weaving these two opposing stories together enabled Stowe to reveal the horrors of slavery through Tom's decline, while keeping the inspiring plot of possibilities with the escape of Eliza and George and Cassy and Emmeline. ... Stowe uses the different characters in this scene, especially Miss Ophelia, to depict some of the different philosophical questions about slavery, as well as about religion and feminism. ... Up the Red River and away from New Orleans in the depth of swamp, Legree has his plantation. There are no other white folk on the plantation--no one can testify against Legree ...

• Word Count: 550
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin. ... He is sold to a plantation owner, the cold hearted Simon Legree. ... Legree wants Tom to be an overseer who would discipline other slaves but quickly sees Tom could never do that. ... Harriet Beecher Stowe obviously hit her mark of striking a chord deep inside people that moves them to action. ...

• Word Count: 606
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

Uncle Tom's Cabin This novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe was meant to bring the reality of slavery in the South to the citizens of the North. ... Uncle Tom's new master, Simon Legree, is a vicious master, using his female slaves for sexual favors and beating them all, some to death. ... The atrocities that take place on Legrees" plantation on the Red River bring us to the very depths of evil that were visited on the slaves in America. Legree is frightened by Uncle Toms" strong beliefs, and set about to break him. ... Harriet Beecher Stowe has included in this one...

• Word Count: 1024
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

His name was Simon LeGree, and he was a cruel slave driver. ... LeGree didn't like Tom from the start. ... LeGree then put his two slave drivers to beat Tom senseless. ... Stowe handled the secondary storyline. ... Stowe chose the "Days of Our Lives" approach. ...

• Word Count: 1695
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

Stowe lived across the Ohio River from large slave plantations in Kentucky. ... Some of the refugees were often sheltered in Stowe's own home. ... Her brother, a traveling businessman, would bring back ugly tales of slavery in the Deep South, with which she was able to make the prototype of Simon Legree, basing him off a rough overseer whom Charles, her brother, had met on a Mississippi riverboat. ... Stowe's representation of slavery. ... On Stowe's visit to the White House, Abraham Lincoln greeted her as "the little lady who wrote the book that made this big war." ...

• Word Count: 1085
• Approx Pages: 4

In Uncle Tom's Cabin, its author Harriet Beecher Stowe strongly addresses racism, religious and political issues on slavery. ... In the book Stowe provided dramatic examples of the evils of slavery and showed how the institution of slavery bonded human beings to master to work for little or no pay; it allowed for slaves to be beaten severely for minor infractions. ... Clare and the Shelbys are the representatives of one class of masters, Legree is the representative of another; and, as all good masters are not as enlightened, as generous, and as considerate, as St. ... Shelby, all bad ma...

• Word Count: 2149
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School

Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe has been adapted numerous times since its debut. ... Rather than preserving the sentiment of Stowe's anti-slavery propaganda, the film loses much of Stowe's harsh critique of slavery by glamorizing the plantation. ... Ultimately, the film adapts most of the plot from Stowe's novel. ... However, the film does not maintain the same seriousness in Stowe's attack on the institution of slavery. ... Stowe's novel arguably started the Civil War in America. ...

• Word Count: 1397
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Uncle Tom's Cabin By: Harriet Beecher Stowe Throughout the book Uncle Tom's Cabin the setting changes.It starts out in Kentucky.Tom is later sold to New Orleans and then to a plantation up the Red River.At each new place Tom goes his faith in God is put to the test,but Tom stays pious and refuses to turn away from God.In Kentucky Tom is owned by Andy Shelby,a kindly master,who has fallen in to debt and is forced to sell his slaves.Tom is sold to a slave trader named Haley.He ends up in New Orleans in the possession of a romantic and flighty man by the name of St.Clare. After the unfo...

• Word Count: 1079
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

Writers such as Hariet Beecher Stowe and Alex Haley are writers who write for more than mere entertainment. Uncle Tom's Cabin, written by Harriet Beecher Stowe, had a political purpose. ... Stowe also portrays Uncle Tom as a perfect being. ... Stowe creates this peaceful scene in order to intensify the reader's disgust when tragedy strikes. ... Unlike Stowe, Haley does not intend to intensify the mood of the reader when tragedy strikes. ...

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After the unfortunate death of St.Clare and his daughter Tom is sold to a wicked plantation owner,Simon Legree,up the Red River. ... He ends up being sold to a man named Legree,a cruel plantation owner,who also buys a beautiful young girl named Emmiline to replace his aging mistress,Cassy.Emmiline was bought despite her mother's attempts to disguise her beauty to save her from this fate. ... This Book discusses love on many levels.Tom and his wife show how it is important to love God.Eva and St.Clare along with Mrs.Shellby and other characters through out the book demonstrate the im...

• Word Count: 1060
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School