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A 4 page paper which examines why Harriet Beecher Stowe developed the three slave owning characters of Shelby, St. Clare, and Legree (in “Uncle Tom’s Cabin), and how they work to offer a critique of slavery. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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issues concerning slavery. It is a work, based on much truth, that involves different people, different types of people, and thus also offers up different types of slave owners. While
a great deal of literature, and historical evidence, points to slave owners who did nothing but beat and abuse slaves, the truth is that many slave owners were not this
vicious or cruel. Slave owners, like slaves and like people in general, come in many different varieties. This is likely the statement that Stowe was making when she wrote her
work and offered up the characters of Shelby, St. Clare, and Legree. In offering different types of masters she was actually offering up a deeper and more thorough understanding of
slavery and the masters. Shelby, St. Clare, and Legree in "Uncle Toms Cabin" In the beginning of the story we are introduced to Shelby, a man who is
apparently a gentleman and one who is perhaps the most positive of all owners. But, he is also a white man and very superior to his slaves. He tells about
how wonderful Tom is as a slave, how honest and trustworthy, yet he is obviously selling him and thus has little true concern for Tom, or any other slave for
that matter. At one point a little boy, named Jim Crow, comes in and he tosses raisins at him and tells him to pick them up. The boy is eager
and excited and Shelby laughs, likely the laugh of the superior in the face of a childlike culture. He "patted the curly head, and chucked him under the chin. Now,
Jim, show this gentleman how you can dance and sing" (Stowe Chapter I). In these respects we can see that Shelby was a kind owner, but he was an
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