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Uncles Tom Cabin


It is noted several times that in the eye of the law, blacks are not considered men, but things. Senator Bird of Ohio, engages in a debate over such Fugitive Slave Law. His wife convinces him husband that such a law is immoral. When Eliza Harris and her son arrive at their home, Mr. And Mrs. Bird break the Law by assisting her (Chapter Nine). 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. It resulted in the division of slave families when slave parents were sold to one master and the children to another. And showed how the institution of slavery corrupts otherwise kind slave holders. Society's emphasis on earning money and accumulating wealth. .
             Further, it is shown that the legal power of the master amounts to an absolute despotism over body and soul, and that there is no protection for the slave's life or limb, his family relations, his conscience, nay, more, his eternal interests, but the character of the master.
             As St. 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. Clare and Mr. Shelby, or as careful and successful in religious training as Mrs. Shelby, all bad masters do not unite the personal ugliness, the coarseness and profaneness, of Legree. Simon Legree has become the stereotypical cruel master, who let his estate go to hell, but continued to work his slaves too hard and beat them senseless (or, in Tom's and other's cases, to death) when they did not behave as he thought they should. It is a return to a more puritanical Christianity. "Did you ever hear, out of yer Bible, "Servants, obey yer masters"? (Chapter 24).
             Frequently in the novel the issue is raised .


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