Page 1 About the Author
Harriet Biche Stowe (June 14, 1811 – July 1, 1896), American writer and author of the famous novel Uncle Tom's Cabin, was born into a prominent North American clergyman family, the son of the famous clergyman Riemann Beecher.
In 1832, she moved with her family to Cincinnati, where she taught at a girls' school and wrote essays about life in New England. She visited Kentucky and witnessed the life of slaves there, which provided the material for her later novels; she was in turn influenced by the strong anti-slavery sentiments at her father's school. This sentiment set the tone of her novel.
Located on the banks of the Ohio River in Kentucky, the city of Cincinnati is home to large serf-owned plantations scattered around the countryside. At the time, it was one of the centers of the abolitionist movement in North America, and passionate speeches against black slavery were often heard in the city. At the same time, Cincinnati was also a refuge for fugitive slaves everywhere, who used Cincinnati as a transit point through the "Underground Railroad" and then fled to Canada or the Northern Free State.
Under the influence of the abolitionist movement, Mrs. Stowe's family also expressed deep sympathy for the black slaves. The fact that Liman Beecher had placed fugitive slaves in her home gave Mrs. Stowe the opportunity to hear first-hand the tragic experiences of the fugitive slaves and to indict the sins of slavery. Mrs. Stowe wrote to her friend Gummelier Bailey in Washington about her plans to write Uncle Tom's Cabin. In a letter to her, Mrs. Stowe said: "Uncle Tom's Cabin" could be serialized in three or four installments of The New Age of Nations. Gammel Bailey was so pleased that he immediately replied and sent three hundred dollars as a fee. From June 1851 onwards, Uncle Tom's Cabin was serialized in this weekly magazine advocating abolition. As a result, the situation was unexpected, Mrs. Stowe wrote longer and longer, the characters, plots, and dialogues in her writing snowballed, and "Uncle Tom's Cabin" was serialized in "The Age of the Nation" for nearly a year (more than forty issues).
After the novel was serialized, Mrs. Stowe said, "This novel was written by God Himself, and I am just a pen in her hand." She died in Hartford in 1896 at the age of 85. He was buried with her husband on the campus of Phillips College in Andover.
Page 2 Celebrity Reviews
Tom sat on the bottom floor of a boat on the Red River in shackles and handcuffs, but his mood was heavier than that. All light disappeared from his sky, all happiness swept by his side, and it was gone forever, just like the embankment and the tree in front of him. Kentucky home, wife, children and generous owner. Palatial Augustine, St. Clare's Mansion; Eva's little blonde head and angelic eyes; Augustine, who is proud, pleasant, handsome, superficially indifferent, but always kind at heart; Those comfortable and laid-back years.... It's all gone. The most tragic fate of the black slave is this: born susceptible to infection,
After the Sven family was educated and cultivated civilization and feelings, it was inevitable that they would go to the black heart family as slaves. Although the law of the land expressly stipulates that it is "legally regarded, recognized and judged as a private property", their souls and the secret little world of memories, hopes, love, fears and lusts contained therein cannot be written off.
Uncle Tom was a poor man. After cultivating high moral character in Mr. Shelbe's house, he came to the hands of black slave traders. On the ship, he meets the "little angel" Eva and the dashing Augustine, but due to Eva's illness and death, Augustine dies tragically, and he is taken away by the black slave trader.
A kind man like Uncle Tom did not escape the fate and eventually died under The Whip of RayGeree. Before he died, he touched Regri's servants with hymns and souls.
Page 3 Background of writing
The Civil War, the War of Emancipation of slaves, was fought in the 1860s. But since the 1820s, the issue of abolition has been at the center of progressive public opinion in the United States. Many prominent American writers of the time sided with abolitionist slavery and called for the emancipation of slavery. Mrs. Stowe was the most prominent of these abolitionist writers.
After hearing and witnessing the tragic conditions of the labor and life of the black slaves, he became the prototype of the Shelby plantation in "Uncle Tom's Cabin". Mrs. Stowe's brother, a merchant who traveled frequently between New Orleans and Red River County, told Mrs. Stowe many true stories about the tyranny and cruelty of the Southern slave owners, especially the bad deeds of a murderous slave owner he had encountered on a merchant ship on the Mississippi River, which shocked Mrs. Stowe. Later, Mrs. Stowe successfully created the negative character of Legley on the basis of this person.
In 1850, the United States Congress passed the "Compromise Act", which aggravated the tragic fate of black slaves, so Mrs. Stowe was determined to use her literary creations to make people fully aware of the tragic situation of black slaves. "Uncle Tom's Cabin" inspired a generation of "abolitionist movements" and also brought the Civil War to the stage of history, and was rated as the 41st of the 100 people who influenced the United States by the authoritative american journal "Atlantic Monthly". The book was first serialized in the journal "National Times" in 1852, and immediately caused a strong response and was warmly welcomed by the people. Critics have argued that the book played a major role in inspiring anti-slavery sentiment and was seen as one of the causes of the American Civil War.
Page 4 Main content
Serbe, a slave owner in Kentucky, failed to speculate on the stock market and decided to sell two slaves in order to pay off his debts. --One is Tom, he was born in Serbe's plantation, as a child as a small domestic slave to serve the master, quite pleasing to the master, and became the head of the house slave in adulthood, loyal and devoted to the interests of the master. Another slave to be sold was the black and white slave girl Eli. Harry, Son of Shah.
Eliza was not a slave who listened to her master's mercy, and when she overheard that her master was going to sell Tom and her son Harry, she took her son to jump off the ice-packed Ohio River with her son under the pursuit of slave traders, fled to the Free State, and then to Canada. Her husband, George Harris, a slave on a nearby plantation, also found the opportunity to escape, met his wife, took the child, and endured hardships, and finally successfully arrived in Canada with the help of abolitionist organizations and achieved freedom. After George decided to go to Africa and fight for the construction of an African nation. This was a young black man who dared to fight and thus embarked on the path of light.
Tom was a different story. In the middle of the night, Eliza knocked softly on the door of Tom's house, and Tom couldn't believe his ears. His wife urged Tom to leave quickly, but Tom said to Eliza sadly, "Eliza, you should go." But I can't go. If you don't sell me, you have to sell all the people on the manor, and the old man will have to ruin his family, and I can't lie to the old man. Eliza could not persuade Tom, so she asked Tom to send a letter to her husband, and fled into the cold night with her son in her arms.
Because he was indoctrinated by the slave owners from an early age into the Christian preaching of fear of God, obedience, and loyalty to the master, he had no complaints about the master's desire to sell him to pay off the debt, and was willing to obey the master's mercy. He was resold to New Orleans and became a slave to slave trader Hayley.
During a drowning accident, Tom saves the life of a slave owner's youngest daughter, Eva, and the child's father, St. Clare, buys Tom from Hayley and makes him a domestic servant to drive a carriage for the family. Tom and the little girl established a relationship. Soon after the little girl suddenly fell ill and died, Saint Clare decided to free Tom and the other black slaves according to the wishes of his younger daughter. But before he could complete the legal formalities for his liberation, Saint-Clare was killed in an accident. saint. Instead of freeing Tom and the other slaves, Clea's wife sent them to the slave auction market.
From then on, Tom fell into the hands of Legery, a slave owner at an extremely ferocious "Red River" plantation. Legrell treated the slaves as "talking cattle", whipped them at will, and lynched them. Tom endured this inhuman torture, still not thinking of finding a way to live for himself, but silently adhering to the principle of being a righteous person. The two slave girls at the plantation decided to escape in order to survive, and they went into hiding. Legrell suspects that Tom helped them escape, binds Tom, whips him to death, and lives. But soup. At last he showed his defiance against the slave owners and said nothing. While Tom was dying, his former master, George, the son of her slave owner Shelby, sold for the first time. Serbe rushes to redeem Tom, because Tom was little Shelby's childhood servant and playmate, but Tom can no longer accept the belated help of his past little master, and he dies with bruises.
George. Serbe punched Legrell to the ground and buried Tom on the spot. After returning to his hometown of Kentucky, little Serbeth freed all the black slaves under his name in the name of Uncle Tom and said to them, "Every time you see Uncle Tom's hut, you should think of your freedom." The black slaves bowed deeply to the hut where Uncle Tom had lived.
Page 5 Quotes
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Around the fountain, there is a circle of cobblestone inlaid corridors, with all kinds of patterns, which are as imaginable as possible. Further afield, there was a silky green meadow, and a carriage lane enclosed it all in the middle. Two tall orange trees with fragrant tulips cast pleasant shade, and the grass is surrounded by Arab-carved marble bonsai with tropical exotic flowers.
Tall pomegranate trees, the leaves are crystal clear, the flowers are red like flames, the leaves are dark jasmine, and the flowers on it are like stars. In addition, there are geraniums, there are brilliant and colorful roses, blooming like brocade, bent branches, as well as golden jasmine and lemon-scented whip flowers, which can be described as a multitude of flowers, full of buds. Occasionally, somewhere you can catch a glimpse of a mysterious tequila, lush leaves, unusual, like an old wizard with gray hair, an incredible and dignified look, proud of the flowers and fragrances that are easy to wither around. On the veranda that surrounds the courtyard, curtains of Moorish fabric are hung, which can be dropped at will to block out the sun.
Sam roared at the horse and tried to pull the reins, but the palm leaf scratched the horse's eyes, which stimulated its frantic nerves even more. It slammed Sam to the ground, took a few rough breaths, and then ran toward the grass in the distance.
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