lieves that blacks in Africa will procure some of the “most magnificent revelations of human life. Certainly they will, in their gentleness, their lowly docility of heart, their aptitude to repose on a superior mind and rest on a higher power, their childlike simplicity of affection, and facility of forgiveness. In all these they will exhibit the highest form of the peculiarly Christian life,… (Stowe 181).” Ms. Stowe believes blacks to be extremely simple minded; a kind of stupid, loving beast.The characterization of an ideal black person in Stowe’s book is a good indicator of her racist attitude. Uncle Tom, a slave who has lived as good a life as a slave can, has been bought by Simon Legree, a viciously mean slave master. “Mas’r Legree, as ye bought me, I’ll be a true and faithful servant to ye. I’ll give ye all the work of my hands, and all my time, all my strength; but my soul I won’t give up to mortal man (Stowe 382).” Tom, who has been treated in every cruel way imaginable, is very humble and does not seem to care what happens to him in a physical sense. He allows himself to be beaten to death because Mr. Legree holds the title to his life. This submissive attitude is what Stowe believes to be the perfect model of a black man. During the twentieth century, it is an insult for a black man to be called an ‘Uncle Tom’ because of the ‘Yes Mas’r’ quality it represents. “Pity him not! Such a life and death is not for pity! Not in the riches of omnipotence is the chief glory of God; but in self-denying, suffering love! (Stowe 423)” To Stowe, the fact that Tom allows his life to be trampled out is not important when compared to the fact that he lived what she considers the ultimate ‘Christian life’.One final racist belief Stowe exhibits is the idea that the place for blacks is Africa. When George, a slave acquire...
