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Harriet Beecher Stowe's 'Uncle Tom's Cabin'

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A general 3 page plot summary of Stowe's 'Uncle Tom's Cabin.' The writer covers specific events as they relate to characters. No other sources cited.

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3 pages (~225 words per page)

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slave trader named Mr. Haley. Mr. Shelby is very uncomfortable selling them. He especially feels bad about Harry who must be separated from his mother, Eliza. Overhearing Mr. and Mrs. Shelby arguing over the "rightness" of selling them, Eliza gets Harry and runs away. On her way to Canada, where her husband has already fled via the "underground railroad," she stops at Uncle Toms Cabin to try to convince Tom to come with them. Tom is against it, saying that he must remain loyal to his "Masr." Eliza and Harry head for the Ohio River. Finding out that Eliza and Harry ran away, Haley starts chasing them. When they arrive at the river, Eliza discovers that it is covered by floating slabs of ice. Seeing no other option, she starts leaping across the ice. On the way across, she almost falls in the icy water and cuts her foot. Upon reaching the end of the river Eliza and Harry are helped to shore by a man who had seen their journey. Much to the luck of Eliza and Harry they were helped by a man who despises slave traders. Mr. Symmes, the man that saves them, takes them to Senator Birds home. There, they are fed and given a place to sleep. All of this is done by a man who had just voted on a bill that would prohibit whites from helping fugitive slaves. Being especially touched by Eliza and Harrys story, Senator Bird takes them to a Quaker settlement where they are safe. They stay with the Hallidays. Eliza discovers that her husband George is staying at the same settlement and the family is reunited. Determined to have Harry, Haley hires two vicious slave hunters named Loker and Marks. They almost succeed in ...

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