Uncle Tom's Cabin

In the book, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe has presented the separation of a family as being one of the cruelest evils of slavery through the characters of the novel. Primarily through the examples of Tom’s separation with his family, Eliza’s mothers protective instincts for her son as well as her separation with her husband, and the relationship between Ms. Ophelia and Topsy. Uncle Tom is a Negro man whom first …

…family for their own benefit. The one thing that a Negro slave can at the least have is to be with their own family which is also torn away from them. By Gods grace Eliza’s whole family were reunited in the end, but much time of her own life she was separated from her mother. And although Topsy was separated by her parents at a young age she found protection by another Mrs. Ophelia.