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Uncle Tom's Cabin Religion
Uncle Tom’s Cabin Reflection of religion
Despite many expression of society ‘Uncle Tom’s Cabin’ demonstrates racism through injustice of white people in society; accusing blacks of being dirty or by incriminating them. Harriet Beecher Stowe uses ‘Uncle Tom’s Cabin’ to help the slave workers in the south to the predicament in the north as an act of to abolish slavery. Stowe represents slaves pure and innocent beings and whites and slave owners as inhumane beings, to create a difference between pure slaves and to those who mistreat slaves. It is too much to treat people unfairly based on their skin color and to believe we are beyond race. I learnt that religion is something we can tolerate but never agree upon, as each faith has an ordained

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