Uncle Tom's Cabin has many roles, it expresses business, race, discrimination, how living was and the power of religion that was emerging. I think it's amazing on how one novel can cover so many important topics and can make it's readers think more in depth about how society was and not to mentioned how much it hasn't changed even today. We still have discrimination in so many aspects--if it's regarding color, size, orientation, how someone dresses, or anything along those lines we still seem to grasp to the attention of be little someone.
I wouldn't be surprised if many masters and their slaves had relationships together during this time, it that it was in secret. Personally I feel like it was wrong in general because it was probably common for the master to treat the slave with disrespect and to beat them when another wealthy person was around and to treat them as if they were nothing, but then to be all lovey-dovey with them when alone? Is total bull-corn!!! I feel that in most cases some owners wanted to have a love connection with a slave just to be liked by SOMEONE! But I think it's morally wrong to use someone just for a social standard or to just get what they want. I'm really excited to read this again and look forward to expressing my opinions because this book definitely has points where you can argue with.
Uncle Toms' Cabin, I feel is a link in the evolutionary chain of socio-economic discrimination. Like all topics of history, society must start somewhere. Uncle Tom's Cabin is just one of may texts that illustrated slavery and its blurring lines in the master/slave relationship. For example, Amistad is a story about a slave brought to America against his will and ultimately goes to court to fight for his freedom and return to his family in Africa. The story illustrates the an unfortunate soul, being pushed around by unfamiliar laws,language and country. The reader is left cheering at the end for the Sengbe Pieh (main character). My question is... Do we cheer because it was the "right" thing to do or do we cheer because the author wrote the text that way?
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