The Evil of Slavery
Harriet Beecher Stowe was an American abolitionist and author, she wrote the novel” The Uncle Tom’s Cabin ” in 1851 shortly after the Congress passed The Fugitive Slave Law in 1850. At that time north and south were so culturally divided that made them seems like two countries, the novel gave the people in the north about what was happening in the south. Harriet Beecher Stowe explained how this act affected the slaves in her novel; she also mentioned the evil of slavery in her sentences. In” Uncle Tom’s Cabin”, the conflicts between the evil slavery and love of Christianity happened all the time. Characters like Tom and Eva represented the nobility of Christian; in contrast, Legree was the embodiment of slavery which did not have any passion to slaves. Harriet Beecher Stowe mentioned mainly about how immoral slavery was, but she also asserted that only the power of love could save United States out of institution of evil slavery. Further more, Stowe emphasized the power of women was equal to men, as their love of Christian; women could influence their husbands, brothers and sons to stop the evil slavery. In the beginning chapter of the book, Mr. Shelby and Mr. Haley were making a business. Shelby and his families treated their slaves pretty well; their attitudes toward slaves were much better than other slave holders. However, under the pleasure of Haley, Mr. Shelby had to sell Tom and Harry or his whole business would in danger. Harriet Beecher Stowe used relentless irony to expose moral hypocrisies of the slave trade, and Shelby was exactly this kind of hypocrisies. Although Shelby’s had a good relationship with their slaves; the evil slavery still torn two families apart in such condition. When Mr. Shelby told Mrs. Shelby the truth in the night before Haley came to collect Tom and Harry, Mrs. Shelby started to realize how horrible the slave was. "This is God 's curse on slavery!--a bitter, bitter, most accursed thing!--a curse to the