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Uncle Tom's Cabin
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Uncle Tom's Cabin describes the story of Uncle Tom, an enslaved person portrayed as innocent and honorable, respectable and ethical in his beliefs. While being shifted by boat to an auction in New Orleans, Tom saves the life of Little Eva, a lovely and forgiving little girl, whose thankful dad then buys Tom. Later, Eva and Tom become great friends. Eva is always in a delicate situation and starts to decline quickly, and on her deathbed, she requests her father to free all his enslaved people. He makes arrangements to do so but then finds out that he is killed by the cruel Simon Legree, Tom's new owner, who has whipped Tom to death when he refuses to tell him about where the slaves escaped. Tom maintains his constant Christian attitude toward his own suffering.
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“This was the most irritating and disappointing book I've read so far in my life. Somehow, a book with such a heavy topic of slavery and some loosely based experiences, was completely overshadowed by Christianity and the saving of their souls. Completely disgusting that this was used as an opportunity to push a Christian narrative. That being said, the time frame it was written, this was probably as progressive as it could have been. I did learn that not every slave master whipped and degraded their slaves. I thought that's just how it was. It's odd to say to see their humanity, because once you own a person, all humanity is out the door. But that some slave owners treated them close to equals, and I say that saying not equals but with a slight bit of respect. I won't recommend this book to anyone, at one time this book was probably a great story and what not, but in today's language, it's lived past its usefulness I feel.”
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“When reading this book, a book about slavery that was written by a white woman, you have to take it for what it is: a product of its time. As you can imagine, with this being one of the first anti-slavery texts produced, it was extremely profound and impactful and emotional. I teared up multiple times. Stowe does an incredible job at conveying the brutal conditions of slavery, and the devastating effects it produced.
I've read a few reviews on Goodreads, of people giving this a low rating because it doesn't align with their views on racism, which is ridiculous to me? Of course the perspectives represented in this book aren't representative of our modern day views, and that's because the novel was written over 100 years ago lmfao. Of course elements and arguments of this novel are outdated. I think its insane people are expecting the arguements presented in this book to be progressive. Was it progressive for its time? Absolutely. Will it be progressive now, for us?? No, of course not.
So if you're expecting this to bring new discussions about race and society, you're going to be disappointed. This should be read for historical context on slavery (and even then, you can find texts actually written by black authors that will protray the experience much more authentically).”
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