Uncle Toms Cabin

Hello my name is Tom, and I am a former slave living in Greenville, South Carolina. I was brought over here by the white people. I'm a son of slaves and for many years now I have seen what the white people have done to us time after time. My life on this plantation has been awful as far back as I can remember. I used to work for a wealthy plantation owner but then I was bought by master Simon Legree. In my life I had been whipped several times but this master would whip me for no reason, no reason at all. I would wait all day for the sun to fall back and the sky so me and my friends could have us a good old time, singing and dancing to those african drums. That was the only freedom that I would ever see when it came to living life on the plantation. Everyday was hard and there wasn't no breaks. From dawn till dusk we worked those fields of cotton and only dreamed about escaping to another land far from here. One day my dream became a reality when I realized that my friend Eliza had escaped to freedom up north. I say it was my dream because I knew that I would never see or smell freedom, so I lived my life through those young people who still had a chance. I thought it would be a hard journey for her, and from what I heard it was. With the Fugitive Slave Act being put into place I would think she wouldn't make it but old Lize did and I have to admit that I'm proud.

I think that slaves during this period we're realizing more and more the power that they had. Not only we're they starting to speak freely but the thought of escaping and putting it into practice was becoming no longer a dream but an reality. Uncle Tom's Cabin was an inspiration to slaves and it showed northern white people just what they we're up against. These southern slave owners could care less about the feelings of their slaves. As long as they got the work done without any mouth they we're ok. When Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote this book I do believe that she went through great controversy about it. In the end I believe that she was happy at what she had done. She had gave America a different perspective on the way that they saw blacks during this time and for some that was all that was needed. Through this piece of work Stowe gave the blacks credit that had never been given before and to me that's what makes this book so great. The fact that someone was willing to stand for what was right and not for what everyone else was doing.