Uncle Toms Cabin Eliza
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The uncle tom s cabin quotes below are all either spoken by eliza harris or refer to eliza harris.
Uncle toms cabin eliza. Traumatized early by being sold away from her mother as a slave then taken to kentucky and given to young mrs. One of stowe s reasons for writing uncle tom s cabin was the fact that one of her own sons died in childhood. The child in the first sentence is little harry the son of eliza and her husband george harris.
Over drinks haley explains the day s events and marks haley and loker discuss the strange responses of female slaves to the sale of their children. Cassy tells tom that eliza was a timid obedient child. After seeing her and summing her up like an object to be purchased the trader offers to buy eliza.
When shelby refuses to sell her the trader buys her little boy instead. Eliza s most important characteristic is that she s a devoted selfless mother who will take any risks to protect her son. As eliza flees haley finds a tavern and mulls his fate.
Uncle tom followed her to the door and was very much astonished too. Shelby eliza no doubt transferred her affection as much as possible to her new mistress and did what she could to please this very conventional and kind but passionless woman becoming as much like mrs. He runs into his acquaintance tom loker a massive and violent looking man and his small mouse like companion marks.
This experience made her realize how painful it would be for a slave mother to have a child sold away from her. Eliza ran quickly to uncle tom s cottage and tapped on the window. For each quote you can also see the other characters and themes related to it each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon like this one.