Uncle Tom's Cabin Chap 18-33

Chapter 18-33(Uncle Tom’s Cabin) Chapter 18: Miss Ophelia took over management of the house and spent the first few days looking at and rearranging all of the various regions to make them more efficient. In the kitchen however, the slave Dinnah reigned supreme, and Miss Ophelia had a hard time getting the old servant to change her unsystematic ways. One day while in the kitchen, an old slave who brought the bread, Prue, came …

…At the end of the day, they went to have their cotton weighed, and all of them came out with enough, but Legree after hearing what was going on, pretended that the mulatto woman was short. Wanting Tom to eventually become an overseer, he ordered him to flog the woman. Tom said no, and when threatened, continued to refuse to beat the woman. Legree turned him over to his overseers for an extremely severe beating.