At the time the movie was written, Uncle Tom's Cabin was controversial because the main character, Uncle Tom, was a black man who was portrayed as more noble, more admirable, and more Christian than any of the white men who "owned" him and his family. He suffered greatly at the hands of the family he served and never complained. Understandably, Harriet Beecher Stowe's work was revolutionary when it came out in 1852.

The villains in the story are almost always white, while the heroes are black or half-black. A long section of the story is about a half-black, half-white slave woman who escapes slavery with her husband and young son. Pursued by cruel hunters, they escape across a frozen river to Canada in search of freedom. One of the men chasing them is subsequently shot down, after which he discovers that the Quakers have restored the health of the family ...... drool then comes to discover that Christ's became opposed to the concept of slavery-a clear sign that a true Christian, one who could not be owned by a slave owner or hunter.

Uncle Tom was eventually lucky enough to be owned by a fairly decent man, but that man died before he could free him. Its most recent owner was a widower, whose only daughter - Tom's friend, a kind girl - had died before him. The slaver's only heir was his hateful racist sister, who ignored her brother's will that all slaves should be free; she auctioned them all off to the highest bidder, and Tom was once again sold like livestock.

His next owner was a man named Ligley, who was a very mean and savage man. He was jealous because Uncle Tom could read and write while he, the white owner, could not. He tortured Tom and made him suffer a lot. Finally, he beat his slave to death. Uncle Tom said nothing but silent resolve and Christian forgiveness, and he turned the other side of his face away until his dying day. ......

While Uncle Tom was dying, the son of Tom's former kind master was "forced" to sell him to pay off his debts, and found him on his farm. to pay off his debts, and found him on his farm. He takes a large sum of money to rescue his old friend, but unfortunately, Tom is mortally wounded and soon dies in his arms. Legree demands at least a proper burial for his friend's body, and cruelly tells him to do with it what he wants because "a dead negro has no value." Tom's friend loses his nerve and beats up the cruel master. The extremely superstitious Liguori later died of alcoholism, and some plantation slaves retaliated by pretending that his house was haunted by the ghost of Uncle Tom, which drove him insane.

I haven't read Uncle Tom's Cabin in many years ...... When I first read it as a child, it made a lasting impression on young me. I know that in later years it has become controversial because African-Americans don't like Uncle Tom's forgiving nature, his willingness to forgive his hosts, to be "nice" with love and attention, and they want him to be more of a Django Unchained-like figure, John Brown, waging war to free himself. . But Beecher Stowe doesn't write that way - she wants to get more readers, so she proceeds with caution, portraying her main character as meekly as possible as Christ, contrasting his innate humanity with the inhumanity that surrounds him.

That's not to say Tom isn't a hero - his heroism is just calmer and more placid. He's a confident man. Strong, silent. When his last master owned cotton, Uncle Tom always picked the most cotton of all the slaves, and even in old age, he was still a strong man. Then he would give most of the cotton to the weaker slaves because he knew that if they didn't pick enough they would be whipped. When denounced and interrogated by his masters, he refused to admit his guilt and accepted brutal beatings so that others would not suffer. His master will try to "break" him and bend him to his will, but he never will.

Some people will feel uncomfortable reading the first few chapters of this novel. How Tom and his wife and children are kind to the owner of their original farm, how he is respected enough by the family to be called "Uncle", and how he is sincerely grateful to his master because Tom and his family live a comfortable life compared to other slaves. There are many subplots in the book ...... where the master's son insists on freeing his "uncle" because how can we own our uncles like we own cattle? The Lord dies. The son chases Tom all over the country trying to buy back his freedom as Tom goes from owner to owner.

Then there is the heartbreaking detail of the separation of mothers and their children at the slave auction. There is also the description of the slaves they were only a quarter black looking completely white but still the property of other whites another thing that convinced readers of the time of their own race .