USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Haley and Tom leave and head to a blacksmith’s shop. While Tom waits outside, Haley goes inside to fix a pair of handcuffs. Meanwhile, young George Shelby comes riding up to say goodbye. He tells Tom that if he were grown up, this would never happen.

Detailed explanation-2: -Summary: Chapter X Haley has returned to the Shelbys’ home to collect Uncle Tom. Aunt Chloe cooks her husband one last meal before he leaves and laments the evils of slavery. He asks her to trust in God to protect them, and tells her that their master is good. Haley takes Tom away, putting his feet in fetters.

Detailed explanation-3: -Summary: Chapter VII When Eliza leaves Uncle Tom’s cabin, she feels desperate and lonely, and tortured by a maternal sense of panic for her imperiled child. She prays to God and travels throughout the night, finally reaching the Ohio River, the barrier between the South and the North.

Detailed explanation-4: -Mrs. Shelby is horrified; he has promised Tom his freedom, and she has assured Eliza her child is safe. Shelby admits that Haley held a mortgage on their property and that he was forced to choose between selling those two and selling everything, including all their slaves.

Detailed explanation-5: -Mr. Haley and Uncle Tom stop at an executor’s sale, where the property of a deceased person is being divvied up and sold at auction. They watch a man telling an old black woman, Aunt Hager, that he’ll try to sell her with her remaining child, Albert, instead of separating the two of them.