Uncle Tom's Cabin Group at eNotes

Examine the fate of different character's (black, white, and in-between).

Mon, 22 Jun 2009 10:30:11 PST

Examine the fate of different character's (black, white, and in-between).

Grammardog Guide to Uncle Tom's Cabin

The general and the specific overlap in this instance. Beecher Stowe has...

Tue, 26 May 2009 15:16:45 PST

The general and the specific overlap in this instance. Beecher Stowe has provided readers with some pertinent insight into the life of the Quakers and why she chose to incoorporate them into the text. In 1853, one year after Uncle Tom's Cabin was published, she released the Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin. We can spare ourselves historical research and go straight to the text ( electronically available, see link below). Regarding the Quakers she...

There are two answers to this really excellent question. To draw from...

Thu, 30 Apr 2009 16:31:47 PST

There are two answers to this really excellent question. To draw from within the text, we can say that Tom's is noble, good, and a Christlike figure who sacrifices himself for a white man's salvation. In general this is illustrated by the trend that he never puts up any resistance to his fate. He is accepting and finds it is better to be wronged than to do wrong. However, viewed from a historical perspective this really compromises the text...

Within the framwork of the novel itself, the escape works quite simply...

Thu, 30 Apr 2009 16:09:45 PST

Within the framwork of the novel itself, the escape works quite simply by giving her freedom. It shows her personal desperation turned into an act of heroism and courage upon hearing the news that she is to be sold in order to settle debts. On another level it works through the symbol of the river. One the one hand, the river marks the seperation between free and slave states ( the Ohio river to be precise) and thus symbolizes...

How did Eliza's escape work in "Uncle Tom's Cabin"?

Thu, 30 Apr 2009 15:36:14 PST

How did Eliza's escape work in "Uncle Tom's Cabin"?

Tough one! There are lots of parts of course that were deliberately...

Mon, 27 Apr 2009 10:27:54 PST

Tough one! There are lots of parts of course that were deliberately meant to shock Stowe's mainly Christian audience, but I guess for me it would be these lines: “I looks like gwine to heaven,” said the woman; “an't thar where white folks is gwine? S'pose they'd have me thar? I'd rather go to torment, and get away from Mas'r and Missis.” These words are spoken by Prue, who is terribly used and abused. She says them to Tom when he...

In Uncle Tom's Cabin Which two lines have created the greatest impact on...

Fri, 24 Apr 2009 22:06:48 PST

In Uncle Tom's Cabin Which two lines have created the greatest impact on you? Why?

There's a number of overt & indirect references to Christianity in...

Mon, 6 Apr 2009 11:02:17 PST

There's a number of overt & indirect references to Christianity in the book.What aspects of Stowe's life provided inspiration 4 these references?

Discuss the role played by the Quakers in the abolitionist movement in...

Mon, 6 Apr 2009 10:58:17 PST

Discuss the role played by the Quakers in the abolitionist movement in general and in "Uncle Tom's Cabin" specifically.

Chapter 13 of Uncle Tom's Cabin has a happy ending: George and Eliza...

Thu, 26 Mar 2009 21:50:20 PST

Chapter 13 of Uncle Tom's Cabin has a happy ending: George and Eliza are reunited. Eliza and Harry have been resting comfortably in the home of Simeon Halliday as they journey on toward freedom. News soon arrives from a neighbor that more fugitive slaves will be joining them. When Eliza hears that one of them is her husband, George, Eliza faints. When she awakens, George is at her side! It takes a while for George (and Eliza...

What is going to happen to George and Eliza at the end of Chapter 13 in...

Thu, 26 Mar 2009 11:50:40 PST

What is going to happen to George and Eliza at the end of Chapter 13 in Uncle Tom's Cabin?

Why does George’s master take him away from the factory?

Tue, 24 Mar 2009 17:40:08 PST

Why does George’s master take him away from the factory?

Why doesn't Tom leave when he has the chance or the 500 hundred dollars?

Wed, 4 Mar 2009 19:12:16 PST

Why doesn't Tom leave when he has the chance or the 500 hundred dollars?

After a little research, I see six aspects. Through her novel Uncle...

Sat, 28 Feb 2009 11:46:48 PST

After a little research, I see six aspects. Through her novel Uncle Tom's Cabin and other abolitionist works, Stowe brought to public attention the following issues: the rampart abuse and corruption in the African slave trade, still in vigour at the time. the mistreatment of slaves in the Southern states and the denigration of their dignity and basic human rights. the disparity between Christian ethics "preached" and what was actually...

Cover Art activity for Uncle Tom's Cabin

How did Harriet Beecher Stowe impact the world in three ways?

Thu, 26 Feb 2009 16:38:34 PST

How did Harriet Beecher Stowe impact the world in three ways?

Given the fact that it has been sold world-wide for over a century, it...

Wed, 21 Jan 2009 11:49:14 PST

Given the fact that it has been sold world-wide for over a century, it is almost impossible to know the exact number of copies that have been sold. No book, except the Bible, has ever been as popular. It sold 10,000 copies in its first week and by the end of its first year, over 300,000 copies had been sold. It was the first American novel to sell over one million copies However, the book's popularity faded at the end of the nineteenth...

How many copies of Uncle Tom's Cabin have been sold world wide to date?

Wed, 21 Jan 2009 09:42:14 PST

How many copies of Uncle Tom's Cabin have been sold world wide to date?

Tom's first master is Arthur Shelby. He is comparatively benevolent in...

Wed, 30 Jul 2008 21:03:40 PST

Tom's first master is Arthur Shelby. He is comparatively benevolent in his treatment of his slaves, is known as a "kind master", and is reluctant to sell Tom when he finds himself in financial straits. Ultimately however, his business sense takes precendence over his "humanity", and he sells Tom to a slave trader in order to pay his debts.Augustine St. Claire, Tom's second master, is sensitive and kind, somewhat of an...