Uncle Tom's Cabin

In Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe, the author communicated to the reader the many tribulations African Americans endured during their time as slaves in the mid nineteenth century by presenting how slaves were viewed and treated by white, racist slave owners, showing their desperate attempts to flee from their rank in society, and by displaying what the future held for them by holding onto their religion even when they were battered and broken.
Stowe demonstrated the tribulations of slaves by presenting how white, racist slave owners treated and viewed slaves. As an example, George Harris explains to his wife Eliza the horrors of the cruelest and dirtiest work that his master burdens him with on purpose, along with insulting and

One example of a slave’s strength in faith was when Tom was close to death after Legree beat him senseless. He kept telling his previous master’s son George that Legree didn’t cause him much harm because in reality, Tom believed that the man who beat him only opened up the gate to heaven sooner (pg. 249). Quickly after Tom passed, the only thing that resonated with George was Tom’s contentedness in being a Christian (pg. 249). Therefore, this allowed George to achieve a sense of redemption and to move on with the loss of his slave, but alas, a friend. This is an important analogy to note in the book because just as the sound of Tom saying he’s proud to be a Christian resonated with George, a slave’s faith in their religion resonates with themselves to pull them through the hard times. Another example of how the author shows a slaves struggles through their faith in religion was when Aunt Chloe and Tom conversed about God before Tom was taken away by his new master. In their conversation, Chloe confesses her worry for her husband on the new plantation because she does not believe he could survive due to the fact that the slave owners down there work their slaves until death (pg. 56). Tom replied with reassurance to his wife by saying that the same God that is with them now, is there also and continued to explain that he is in the Lord’s hands, which will help him if something happened (pg. 56). The strength of Tom’s faith carried him through his troubled times as noted above and helped to reassure his troubled wife and put his own restlessness of his new life, at ease. God, as insinuated by Tom, is believed to be the protector of his life, and allowing the Lord to be his crutch and strength in life even through his hard times with having to leave his family and eventually