to hear(411). Stowes takes this opportunity to show slave owners the brute reality of this institution that they are preserving. Despite the fact that slavery does allow for the inequality between men and for the creation of roles as master and slave, Tom proves that there is one thing that slavery cannot allow ownership of: his soul. He makes a heart-wrenching speech when he is being beaten by his master, Simon Legree. Legree ask Tom ant I yer master? Didnt I pay down twelve hundred dollars cash? Ant yer mine, now, body and soul?(Stowe 355). This illustrates how materialistic the institution of slavery is to think that one can buy someones soul. If all men are equal, then there can never be a price set for someones soul or body. Tom refutes Legree by saying no! no! no! My soul ant yours, Masr! You havent bought it, -ye cant buy it! no matter, you cant harm me(356). Tom proves that Legree really has no power over him because he does not own his soul; God owns his soul. Simon can no longer control Tom physically, and his spirit, mind, and body are now free through death.Tom triumphs over the evils of slavery by realizing that he is equal to his master, if not better. Through Tom Stowe is able to show society that blacks are equal and that they should be treated with the same rights that all other humans are treated. The attitudes of racial inequality permeated from society directly into the novel reemphasizing Stowes critique of white supremacy. Slave owners justify this cruel institution by categorizing blacks as sub-human and believing that they are racially superior. Stowe urges Southerners to look with in themselves and see if what they are doing is right. She asks them have you not, in your own secret souls felt that there were woes and evils in this accursed system?(440). This novel is intended to inform the readers about the tragedies of slavery and the inhumanity of the institution of slavery. Stowe decons...
