Tom

A slave owner named Shelby is forced to sell his treasured slave Uncle Tom and a young boy named Harry to settle his debts. Uncle Tom is an older man, highly spiritual and loyal. He decides he will not resist the sale, though it means leaving his wife and children behind. Harry's mother, Eliza, cannot bear to lose her son. Her husband has already fled for Canada, promising to send money for her redemption as …

…buys him. Simon Legree is a Yankee who has a plantation down south. His plantation is large and squalid. He is a brute who overworks and beats his slaves till they drop. He is the devil incarnate. He always taunts Tom for his belief in God. In the very beginning he has Tom flogged mercilessly because he refuses to whip a slave woman, Lucy. He tries to bend Tom's will to his own. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**