USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -When George Shelby describes George Harris’s wife, Eliza, Cassy realizes that Eliza is her own lost daughter. Later, Cassy and Emmeline, together with Emily de Thoux, trace George and Eliza Harris to Montreal, where they have been living for five years and have had another child.

Detailed explanation-2: -George visits his wife Eliza and lets her know his plan to escape. He will go to Canada and work until he has enough money to liberate her and their son. A disguised George walks into a tavern and commences talking with some men about the reward offered for George’s return, dead or alive.

Detailed explanation-3: -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-4: -Uncle Tom’s Cabin opens on the Shelby plantation in Kentucky as two enslaved people, Tom and 4-year old Harry, are sold to pay Shelby family debts.

Detailed explanation-5: -George Harris goes to university in France. Then the family decides to seek their fortunes in Liberia. Miss Ophelia takes Topsy home with her to Vermont. Topsy endears herself to everybody and becomes an excellent Christian woman and, eventually, a missionary to Africa.