Uncle Tom’s Cabin (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters, Revised Third Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Harriet Beecher Stowe
- First Published: 1851
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Social realism
- Time of Work: Mid-nineteenth century
- Setting: Kentucky and Mississippi
- Genres: Long fiction, Social realism
- Subjects: African Americans, Segregation or integration, Freedom, Values, Suffering, Africa or Africans, Mothers, Parents and children, Love or romance, Race, South or Southerners, Superstition, Escapes, Nineteenth century, Slavery or slaves, Religion, Underground railroad, Faith, Cruelty, Morality or morals, Sacrifice
- Locales: New Orleans, LA, Kentucky, Ohio, Mississippi River, Liberia
Characters Discussed
Uncle Tom, a slave. Although he is good and unrebellious, he is sold by his owner. After serving a second kind but improvident master, he comes under the ownership of brutal Simon Legree and dies as a result of his beatings.
Eliza, a slave. Learning that her child is about to be sold away along with Tom, she takes the child and runs away, crossing the Ohio River by leaping from floating ice cake to floating ice cake.
George Harris, her husband, a slave on a neighboring plantation. He also escapes, passing as a Spaniard, and reaches Ohio, where...
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