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Female Characters In Legree's Farm

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For most of the Christian believers, they held the belief that they were superior than blacks; they considered black slaves were not human beings at all and had no rights on almost everything. In other words, black slaves were properties held by their masters and money was the only thing to value them.

In the novel, Stowe portrayed female characters as the most angelic and warm-hearted Christian people: they treated black slaves nice and did a myriad of things they could to better off black slaves’ life - kept them survive from illness, gave them food and clothes. For example, when Ms. Shelby heard that her husband, Mr. Shelby, was going to sell Uncle Tom along with Eliza and Harry to the slave trader Haley in order to save the family from the huge economic pressure, she felt some guilty inside her heart – Uncle Tom was so trustworthy and loyal to their family but they instead sold him as return. She deeply thought that violated her doctrine as a Christian, she should let them go; eventually, though she did not save Uncle Tom from being sold, Ms. Shelby let Eliza and …show more content…
In Legree’s farm, he took advantage of human nature’s dark side to regulate it. He asked two black people as guards of the farm, the two often supervised other black slaves during their working hours to check whether they were lazy about their work. Legree held with the idea that black people were nasty and cunning, so when the two guards were supervising those working slaves, they were keeping the eye on each other as well. Besides, Legree had a great favor on gorgeous black women. To answer his favor, he chose the most beautiful one to work as his maid – she needed to do nothing but wait on him for whatever his needs were – and he changed his maid quite often. In addition, Legree once tried almost everything he could to destroy Uncle Tom’s belief just because Uncle Tom helped Cassy with picking cotton after Cassy was replaced by a new

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