Văn học Mỹ. Human values in uncle Tom''s cabin

Student’s name : Nguyễn Hoàng Phủ
Code : B070200
Class : 0754BD1 American literature
Instructor : Trương Thị Kim Liên, M.A.
Day : 20 Jannuary 2010
Some thoughts about the human values
in Uncle Tom's Cabin novel
Uncle Tom's Cabin is a novel anti-slavery of Harriet Beecher Stowe, an
American novelist. Published in 1852, the novel had a profound effect on
the point of view for African Americans and slavery situation in the United
States, which increases the conflict between social classes and provokes
the American Civil War. After reading Uncle Tom's Cabin, we realize that
Uncle Tom's cabin work contents much deep human values.
What are the human values in Uncle Tom’s Cabin novel like ?
Fist of all, Stowe is an American writer, but she was against slavery, and
denounced the brutality of this regime. Through the description of the
author, we can recongnize that the cruelty of slavery in the United States at
that moment was very violent. The highlight of the cruelty of slavery is
that Uncle Tom character who was a honest black slave had to leave his
wife and his children, he was sold from place to place, and brutally beaten.
In addition, his death in terrible cotton plantations in the South America, a
place where many other wretched lifes like Uncle Tom were buried, is a
typical demonstration.
Secondly, Uncle Tom's Cabin novel praised the honesty of black slaves
who respect human dignity as Uncle Tom, brave mothers as Eliza Harris,
energetic and earnest young characters loving freedom as George Harris.
Simultaneously, the work also strongly condemned the slavery with the
slave’s owners, the extremely brutal human trafficking and the United
States Law which supported the slavery, allowed beating and killing
innocent black people and punished those who sheltered slaves. With his
work, writer played a part in the liberation of slaves in the United States,

accused the inhuman institutions, and encouraged the Americans with
humanity to struggle to destroy it.
Finally, the auther gives us the belief in the fairness, the righteousness in
social life and affirmed that with the love, the honesty, people can
overcome everything for victory, and overthrow slavery in human society.
Thank Harriet Beecher Stowe for writting "Uncle Tom's Cabin” to defend
the slaves, through her that we can understand the life of slaved people in
American society in the pass. What uncle Tom and Other slaves spent were
really those in the hell. However, via those ordeals, we also see clearly their
human dignity , their honesty and their freedom’s love. In our era, the racial
discrimination may also exist. Let's call people to live with true love, with
humanity and ensure equality for a peaceful world.