Religious Contradictions: Slavery in Uncle Tom’s Cabin

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Upon the reading the Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin, there were definite themes about the issue of slavery and how it goes against everything preached and said about in the Bible. Jesus tells us to love one as thy neighbour, but by slavery as a concept is doing the complete opposite as human-beings are treated as mere possessions. The first theme that was very apparent to the reader, was that on religious virtue when it comes to Christianity and slavery, they contradict each other. Throughout the novel there were direct references to Christianity. In volume I chapter III, The Husband and the Father, it clearly states “If you only trust in God and try to do the right thing, he’ll deliver you from that statement expressed it talks about having faith in …show more content…

S’pose they’d have me thar? I’d rather go to torment, and get away from Mas’r and Missis” this is an example of the theme of religion being shown. From this expressed in the novel its refers to the anger and frustration that slavery is doing to people and how as a result religion and having faith and hope in God salvation will come. From those two examples from the novel shows directly the religious aspect to the novel. When it comes to matters of religion, it is again mentioned towards the end of a letter Abraham Lincoln wrote to A.C Hodges where he states that “If God now wills the removal of a great wrong, and wills also that we of the North as well as you of the South, shall pay fairly for our complicity in that wrong, impartial history will find there in new cause to attest and revere the justice and goodness of God”, this is yet another example of the religious theme, although it not directly linked to the novel. The letter to A.C Hodges was directly sent from the President himself in reply to an article written in a popular

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