on the Shelby Plantation, is bright and cute, and sings and dances for Mr. Shelbyand Haley. He is so beautiful that he is disguised as a girl in order to escape into Canada. Once there, hedoes very well in school. Little Eliza is born free in Canada. - SAM AND ANDY- Sam and Andy, slaves on the Shelby plantation, provide comicrelief through their mispronunciations and deliberate mishaps. Andy, who likes to makes speeches, is meantto satirize politicians. But Sam and Andy make an important contribution to the novel's plot- their clowningallows Eliza to escape across the Ohio River.MR. SHELBY - Mr. Shelby, the owner of a Kentucky plantation, generally treats his slaves well, but he decides to sell two of them, Uncle Tom and little Harry, to pay off a debt. Although heregrets the sale, Shelby feels he has no other choice.MRS. SHELBY - Mrs. Shelby, a kind, religious woman, tries to raise the family's slaves with Christian values. She attempts to convince her husband not to sell Tom and Harry, and shehelps Eliza escape. Warm-hearted Mrs. Shelby treats her slaves like people, crying with Aunt Chloe when Uncle Tom leaves and consoling her when they learn he is dead. - GEORGE SHELBY- George Shelby, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Shelby, is thirteen years old when the novel begins, and eighteen when it ends. He likes to spend time with Uncle Tom and Aunt Chloe,basking in their kindness and attention. He teaches Uncle Tom to read and write, and reads the Bible at theslaves' religious meeting. On Uncle Tom's grave, he swears to do whatever he can to fight against slavery,and he begins by freeing the slaves on his own plantation. George is one of the few characters who changesduring the course of Uncle Tom's Cabin, as he develops from a good-hearted but somewhat self-centered boy into a noble and ...
