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Literature Review of Uncle Tom's Cabin! ：

It has also been translated by American woman writer Beecher Stowe (1811-1896) into A Slave's Journey to Heaven and Uncle Tom's Cabin. Beecher Stowe was born in a pastor's family and used to be a teacher. She lived in Cincinnati for 18 years, just across the river from the southern slave village, which gave her the opportunity to get in touch with some escaped slaves. The sufferings of the slaves aroused her deep sympathy. She has been to the south herself and learned about the situation there herself. Uncle Tom's Cabin was written under this background. This book was serialized for the first time in National Times magazine on 1852, which immediately aroused strong response and was welcomed by people unparalleled. In the first year alone, more than 0/00 editions of/kloc-were printed in China, and more than 300,000 copies were sold. Later, it was translated into more than 20 languages and published all over the world. Critics believe that this book has played an important role in stimulating people's anti-slavery sentiment and is regarded as one of the causes of the American Civil War. When President Lincoln met Mrs. Stowe later, she jokingly called her "a little woman who wrote a book and caused a big war", which fully reflected the great influence of the novel Uncle Tom's Cabin.

The story begins with a deal between a slave owner and a slave trader.

Shelby, a slave owner in Kentucky, failed to speculate in the stock market. In order to pay off his debts, he decided to sell two slaves. One is Tom who was born in Shelby Plantation. Xiao Jiayou, who was the master when he was a child, won the favor of his master. When he became an adult, he became a slave manager of his master, loyal and committed to safeguarding his interests. Another slave who was trafficked was Harry, the son of Eliza, a mulatto slave. Eliza is not a slave at the mercy of his master. When she overheard that her master was going to sell Tom and her son Harry, she took her son and jumped into the Ohio River overnight with the help of slave traders, fled to a free state and then fled to Canada. Her husband, george harris, was a slave in a nearby plantation. He also waited for an opportunity to escape, joined his wife and took the children, and finally arrived in Canada with the help of the abolitionist organization.

Tom is a different story. He knew and supported Eliza's escape, but he didn't escape himself. He was taught by slave owners since he was a child that he feared God, resigned himself to his fate, was loyal to his master, and had no complaints about the master selling him to pay his debts, so he was willing to be at his mercy. He was resold to New Orleans and became a slave of the slaver Harry. In a drowning accident, Tom saved the life of a slave owner's little daughter Eva, and the child's father St. Clay bought Tom from Harry. When I was a domestic servant, I drove a carriage for my master's family. Tom developed feelings for the little girl. Soon the little girl died suddenly, and St. Clay decided to liberate Tom and other slaves according to her last wish. However, before the legal process of liberation was completed, St. Clay was killed in an accident. St. Clay's wife did not liberate Tom and other slaves, but sent them to the slave auction market. From then on, Tom fell into the hands of Legelli, a slave owner of an extremely vicious "Red River" plantation. Legelli treated slaves as "talking animals", flogged them at will and lynched them. Tom endured this inhuman torture, but still did not think of finding a way out for himself, but silently pursued the principle of being a man. In order to survive, two female slaves in this plantation decided to run away, and they hid. Legelli suspected that Tom had helped them escape, tied Tom up and whipped him to death. But Tom finally rebelled against the slave owners and said nothing. When Tom was dying, George Shelby, the son of his former master, sold his slave owner for the first time to buy Tom, because Tom was a childhood servant and playmate of Little Shelby, but Tom could not accept the late help of his former master and passed away with a black face. George Shelby knocked Legelli to the ground with a heavy punch. Buried Tom on the spot. After returning to his hometown of Kentucky, Little Shelby liberated all the slaves under his name in the name of Uncle Tom and said to them, "Every time I see Uncle Tom's cabin, I should think of your freedom."

Appreciation of Uncle Tom's Cabin

It not only describes black slaves with different performances and personalities, but also describes the faces of different types of slave owners. It focuses on the story of Tom, a slave who accepted the Christian spirit instilled by slave owners and resigned himself. They also created rebellious slaves, such as Eliza and her husband george harris, who were unwilling to let the slave owners decide their own lives and deaths. At the same time, it also reveals that the inner world of various slave owners is not exactly the same as that of slave owners. Through the description of Tom and george harris, two slaves with different personalities, this book tells readers that Tom, who was resigned to the fate of slave owners, could not escape the fate of death, while George and his wife, who dared to resist and fight, were reborn. Therefore, Uncle Tom's Cabin has played a positive role in social development, especially in the victory of the American abolitionist movement and the just side represented by Lincoln in the American Civil War. As a literary work, the famous American poet henry longfellow called it "the greatest victory in the history of literature".