AMERICAN LITERATURE
ELIZABETHAN ERA
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Question
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Tom’s death
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Eliza’s escape
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Tom’s daughter’s wedding
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Tom saving Eva
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Detailed explanation-1: -Why Did Stowe Write Uncle Tom’s Cabin? In the summer of 1849, Harriet’s 18-month-old son, Samuel Charles, died of cholera. This crushing grief was incorporated into Uncle Tom’s Cabin; Stowe said it helped her understand the pain enslaved mothers felt when their children were sold away from them.
Detailed explanation-2: -Shelby has fallen into debt and must sell several slaves to raise money, or else he will lose all his land and property. He tells Haley of a fine slave he owns, Uncle Tom-an uncommonly good and honest man, and a devout Christian.
Detailed explanation-3: -Tom refuses and tells her she must not kill Legree, for to do so would be to sell her soul to evil. Instead, he encourages her to take Emmeline and run away.
Detailed explanation-4: -The death from cholera of her young son Charley caused Harriet Beecher Stowe to empathize with slave mothers whose children were so often torn from them, and so it planted the seed for Uncle Tom’s Cabin.