Uncle Tom's Cabin
Dear Auntie Sue,
Have you heard of the sin manifesto that is slavery? This blood splattered "industry" is impossibly inhuman. No other publication opened my eyes so fully to this atrocity as Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin. This story chronicles the ill-fated venture of Tom, a slave, and Eliza and George, also slaves. As the story starts Tom, who can both read and write, is a slave on the pleasant and well taken care of plantation of Shelby in Kentucky. Here he is treated with respect by its caretaker, wife and child. Of course this does not last and soon the hideous form of slavery rears its ugly head.
Apparently the owner of the Shelby plantation is in some debt and you can whiff trouble coming as soon as the slave trader shows up. That's right Auntie Sue, I said trader, slaves are regarded as a commodity down here in Dixie. George and Eliza escaped earlier. It certainly showed the brutality of the mentality of the slave holder and bounty hunter. They were pursued......
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