Uncle Tom Cabin

"A hard life in Benjamin F. Hudson's Another View of Uncle Tom" (Phylon, Spring, 1963), Benjamin Hudson states the character in Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel Uncle Tom's Cabin, that Uncle Tom is high above a good person especially when he was unjustly punished.

Uncle Tom was more than a good Christian especially to hold himself together through the battles of every day life ahead of him. He received scourging for refusing to treat other slaves in such harsh manners. Simon Legree his master disliked his slave Uncle Tom because he remained true to his faith and Legree wanted Uncle Tom to do his will only.

A time had come to where another slave named Cassy had murder in her mist of her master Legree in which Tom had persuaded her in that the accomplishment of doing so would bring her more harm than good.

Even in the time of thrashing from Uncle Tom's master Legree's two other slaves Sambo and Quimbo he remained a fine upstanding man, even though these last amounts of excruciating pain would bring about his death. He cared more for these two slaves and his master, who was giving him this injustice at the words of their master then for what was being done to him. Uncle Tom new his faith in God would maintain, therefore he would never charge the others for the misdeed of life that was being taken from him.

There were bouts of grief in Uncle Tom over his life before his death where he felt the wrong that was being done to him, this brought about some battles within himself as well as outcries. At these times is where his faith was tested to the utmost. Through these struggles Uncle Tom remained in his faith, and had a peace about and within himself, where he was able to continue in his principles of everyday life, in which was certainly a brutal life of a slave.

Uncle Tom's death came about from the blatant disregard of life his master Legree wants to shatter