UNCLE TOM’S CABIN *H ERRIET BEECH ER STO WE*

PLOT SYNOPSIS

HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

A. Shelby-prospect of losing

everything he owns;

The Shelbys-good slaveholders;

Necessity of selling two slaves:

Uncle Tom and young Harry;

Slave trader, Haley, buys both

of them;

Eliza, Harry’s mother, overhears

the conversation;

Eliza and George-appalled

by Shelby’s plan of selling

Harry;

Emily Shelby had promised

not to sell their son;

George runs away from his

master, as well as Eliza and

Harry;

Locker, the slave catcher, pursues

Eliza and George;

Catches up with them and put up

a fight;

George shoots Locker in the side

Locker is cured in a nearby

mission;

George and Eliza are free to go to

Canada;

Tom accepts being sold;

He feels sorry for

abandoning his family;

He is bought by a good

slave owner, travelling in

the same ship as Tom:

Augustine St. Clare;

Uncle Tom befriends Eva,

St. Clare’s daughter;

He saved her after she had

fallen in a river;

St. Clare buys Tom and

Topsy, abused by them master

They spend happy moments

together;

Eva falls ill and dies;

Her death inspires her

family to fight the

injustice of slavery;

St. Clare dies soon after

Marie St. Clare sells

Tom to a bad slaveholder

Uncle Tom is treated very bad;

He does not approve beating a slave woman: Lucy

He preaches God’s Will among the other slaves;

Finally, he is severely beaten and dies;

George Shelby finds and buries him;

He is an example of morality for everyone;