USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -In Uncle Tom’s cabin, Aunt Chloe is cooking dinner for Tom and the children. Shelby’s son, young Mas’r George, is teaching Tom how to write the letter G. They laugh and talk, bantering about, then eating griddlecakes and discussing pies.

Detailed explanation-2: -Called “Mas’r George” by Uncle Tom, George is the Shelbys’ good-hearted son. He loves Tom and promises to rescue him from the cruelty into which his father sold him. After Tom dies, he resolves to free all the slaves on the family farm in Kentucky.

Detailed explanation-3: -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-4: -On a winter afternoon in the early 1850s, two white men, Shelby and Haley, discuss business in Shelby’s dining room on a Kentucky farm. Shelby is preparing to sell two slaves to Haley, a slave-trader: Someone named Tom, a capable, honest, Christian, is one.

Detailed explanation-5: -A major theme in Uncle Tom’s Cabin is the problem of slavery and the treatment of humans as property, concepts that Stowe counterbalanced against the morality of Christianity. Stowe’s depiction of slavery in her novel was informed by her Christianity and by her immersion in abolitionist writings.