Harriet Beecher Stowe, there was a bitter feud between the North (Anti-slave states) and the South (Pro-slave states). Blacks, also known as African Americans, were being bounded and their freedom was being taken away from them. The south felt that they had the right to do this. It was their obligation. The north on the other hand saw a different story. The North believed in freedom and some equality for all man-kind(except for women back in those days). New pieces of lands were being won and bought and there was matter of dispute to what would it happen. In the 1860's slavery was abolished with the Emancipation Proclamation. Years before this proclamation, a bitter battle was fought between the North and the South. This war was known as the bloodiest war, putting family against friends and brother against brother. This war was known as the Civil War. Before the Civil War (1861 to 1865), Harriet opened the eyes with her fictional story and made a complete historical factor in American history. This novel opens on the Shelby plantation somewhere in Kentucky before the Civil War. The Shelby's own numerous slaves all of whom they treat as though they are family. Unfortunately, at the opening of the book it is understood that Mr. Shelby has gotten into some financial difficulties, and the only way out of debt is to sell some of his slaves. He is left no other choice but to sell his most faithful and hardest working slave, Tom, and a little boy named Harry. Mr. Haley, a slave trader comes to the Shelby plantation one afternoon to finalize the deal, but the transaction is overheard by Eliza, Harry's mother. She goes into a panic and swears that she will not allow them to take her child, so she tries to persuade Tom to run away with her and Harry. Tom refuses because, being the loyal man that he is, he knows that Mr. Shelby is only doing what he has to do. This does not discourage Eliza from doing what she has to do, running away. Due to the ...
