Do you know what Uncle Tom's Cabin is about?

Question

I know it's a classic, so I am reading it. But, don't have any idea what it is about, is it about what the Color Purple is about? Except the incest.

Answer 1

Pure Antebellum American Melodrama redeemed by being one of the first and to date few books to paint a sympathetic portrait of 'The *****.' The book is realistic and stark in its effort to paint an honest portrait of slavery as it is existed in 1800 to 1840 America but its message, as befitting a writer who was born unto a family of Ministers, its message is that the Love of Jesus Christ will sustain people no matter how miserable their lives might be.

Peace

Answer 2

I have the movie so it is about slavery but the plot is about Samuel L. Jackson running and getting away from his master and the his wife later escapes staring Phylicia Rashad but the movie is mostly about this one slave who learns to read and write and run the fields because he is the biggest and the strongest staring Avery Brooks real good movie. U should watch the movie also. Happy New Years to Ya.

Answer 3

Modern readers, who may have relatively little awareness of or respect for moral and spiritual matters, in comparison with matters physical and emotional, are apt to see these dangers as less important than they seemed to Stowe and her nineteenth-century audience. But to Stowe, the moral impact of slavery was among its chief evils, and to object that the moral responsibility belonged to the masters, not the slaves—who after all could not help themselves—would be a way of saying that these slaves were not adult human beings, people whose moral choices were their own to make. Yes, Stowe would agree that the masters were to blame for giving them nothing but difficult choices; but the moral choice for any action (or inaction) is made, she would say, by the person himself or herself. Slavery is evil because it attempts to reduce to objects people who cannot be so reduced.

Answer 4

Its about slavery and the events leading to the civil war.

Answer 5

slavery in the 1800's

Answer 6

The evils of slavery and racism

Answer 7

Its about slavery and what all they went through. I think that you would enjoy reading this book.

Answer 8

If you are reading it then you should know! My guess is that you are NOT reading it and want someone to do your homework for you.

Answer 9

Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly is a novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe which treats slavery as a central theme. The novel is believed to have had a profound effect on the North's view of slavery.

Tom owned by George Shelby
The book opens with a Kentucky farmer named Arthur Shelby who is about to lose his farm because of massive debts. Even though he and his wife (Emily Shelby) believed that they had a benevolent relationship with their slaves, Shelby decided to raise the needed funds by selling two of them — Uncle Tom, a middle-aged man with a wife and children, and Harry, the son of Emily Shelby’s maid Eliza — to a slave trader. Emily Shelby hated the idea of doing this because she had promised her maid that her child would never be sold; Emily's son, George Shelby, hated to see Tom go because he considered the slave to be his good friend.


[edit] Eliza and Harry escape
When Eliza overhears Mr. and Mrs. Shelby discussing the fact that Mr. Shelby has sold Tom and Harry to the slavetrader Haley, Eliza determines to run away in order to save her son. She is pushed to this decision not by any physical cruelty on the part of her master or mistress, but by the maternal fear of losing her only child (she has already lost two children by miscarriage). She departs in the night, leaving a note of apology to her owners.


[edit] Tom is “Sold down the river”
While all of this is happening, Uncle Tom is sold and taken down the Mississippi River. On the boat, Tom meets and befriends a young white girl named Eva. When Eva falls into the river, Tom saves her. In gratitude, Eva's father, Augustine St. Clare, buys Tom from Haley and takes him with the family to their home in New Orleans. Tom and Eva come to relate to one another in a very special way, sharing a deep Christian faith between them.


[edit] George, Eliza and Harry escape
As Eliza and her husband George Harris attempt to reach Canada, they are cornered by Loker and his men, causing George to shoot Loker. Worried that Loker may die, Eliza convinces George and the Quakers to bring the slave hunter to a nearby Quaker settlement for medical treatment.


[edit] Tom owned by Augustine St. Clare
Back in New Orleans, St. Clare debates slavery with his cousin Ophelia who, while opposing slavery, is deeply prejudiced against black people. St. Clare, however, is not biased against blacks but accepts slavery because he is unable to stop the entrenched system. In an attempt to show Ophelia that her views on black people are wrong, St. Clare purchases Topsy, a young black girl. St. Clare then asks Ophelia to educate Topsy.

After Tom has lived with the St. Clares for two years, Eva grows very ill. Before she dies she experiences a vision of heaven, which she shares with the people around her. As a result of her death and vision, the other characters resolve to change their lives, with Ophelia promising to love her slaves more, Topsy saying she will better herself, and St. Clare pledging to free Tom.


[edit] Tom sold to Simon Legree
Before St. Clare can follow through on his pledge, he is fatally stabbed while intervening in a fight. His wife reneges on her late husband's vow and sells Tom at auction to a vicious plantation owner named Simon Legree. Legree (who is not a native southerner but a transplanted Yankee) takes Tom to rural Louisiana where Tom meets Legree's other slaves, including Emmeline (whom Legree purchased as a sex slave). Legree begins to hate Tom when Tom refuses Legree's order to whip a fellow slave. Tom receives a severe beating, and Legree resolves to crush Tom's faith in God. But Tom refuses to stop reading his Bible and trying to comfort the other slaves as best he can. While at the plantation, Tom meets Cassy, who was Legree's previous sex slave. Cassy was previously separated from her son and daughter when they were sold to different owners. When Cassy became pregnant again she killed her child to save him from the same fate.

At this point Tom Loker returns to the story. Loker has changed as the result of being healed by and living with the Quakers. In addition, George, Eliza, and Harry obtained their freedom after they crossed over into Canada. In Louisiana, Uncle Tom almost succumbs to hopelessness as his faith in God is stretched to the limit because of the hardships of the plantation. However, he has two visions — one of Jesus and one of Eva — which renews his resolve to remain faithful to Christ, even unto death. He encourages Cassy to escape, which she does, taking Emmeline with her. When Tom refuses to tell Legree where Cassy and Emmeline have gone, the cruel master orders his overseers to kill Tom. As Tom is dying, he forgives the overseers who savagely beat him. Humbled by the character of the man they have murdered, both men make commitments to become Christians. George Shelby (Arthur Shelby's son) arrives with money in hand to buy Tom’s freedom, but it is too late.


[edit] Final Section
On their boat ride to freedom, Cassy and Emmeline meet George Harris’ sister and accompany her to Canada. Once there Cassy discovers that Eliza is her long-lost daughter. Now that their family is together again, they travel to France and eventually Liberia, the African nation created for former American slaves. There Cassy's long-lost son will also meet them. George Shelby returns to the Kentucky farm. After his father dies he frees all the slaves to honor the memory of Tom’s sacrifice. Before the slaves leave, George tells them to remember Tom’s sacrifice and his belief in the true meaning of Christianity every time they look at Tom's cabin.