Uncle Tom’s Cabin …show more content…
Stowe displays that after Tom left Mr. Shelby, he has found a new master, Simon Legree, an evil man who controls his slaves until they die, then buys another new ones cheaply in a never-ending cycle. “Let’ me know they are free to run any time, and it just breaks up their wanting to” (Stowe 90). Stowe shows the slaves have right to run away and persuade them to be economically free that they do not belong to anyone besides themselves. “We want a party of runaway niggers” (Stowe 167). Tom protests to obtain his fellows and friends back because they are “free man”, but when he encourages two female slaves, Cassy and Emmeline, whom Legree uses as prostitutes, to escape, Legree beats Tom to death (Stowe 167). Later, the two women travel to Canada together and are reunited with their families. They said that “We ought to be free to meet and mingle, --to rise by our individual worth, with ought any consideration of caste or color …I want a country, a nation, of my own” (Stowe 266). Slaves need to protest their slave hunters and slave owners since they ought to have free, free to have a say, free to a fair economically and politically. Although Tom’s life ended in tragedy, Stowe reveals that there is much happiness among these slaves who survived and escaped the trials and tribulations of slavery, either through emancipation or by fleeing to