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Review of Uncle Toms Cabin, by Harriet Beecher Stowe
I didnt know it was going to be funny!
I guess I should stop being surprised every time I read a famous book and find it entertaining. Theres a reason Uncle Toms Cabin is a classic and has stuck in our cultural psyche for over 174 years as of this writing.
I avoided reading this book all my life. I typically like escapist novels about romantic swashbuckling action & adventure. I thought Uncle Toms Cabin would be some dry, boring, Victorian moral lecture about the deprivations of slavery.
Well, yeah, it certainly does that. The version I read even has The Great American Protest Novel written on the title page as a subtitle. There are plenty of gutwrenching scenes of slavery that Beecher-Stowe claims to have taken from real-life incidents. The characters also make anti-slavery and anti-Fugitive Slave Act arguments in their dialogue throughout the book, driving the point home: slavery is bad.
But this book has so much more than that, like action scenes, suspense, drama, even a little gothic Victorian horror. Its funny too! Theres a bit where, after a young woman runs away with her child, several of the slaves are ordered to help the slave catcher find her. They make a big show trying to be helpful, but theyre actually doing everything in their power to delay, misdirect, and obfuscate the search every step of the way, trying to buy her time. This makes for some surprising hilarity. So much so that I had to stop and look up whether Uncle Toms Cabin was meant to be funny! The answer I got was yes, and that Stowe did this to endear us to the slaves and make them real people rather than mere objects to be pitied.
Does some of it come across like a comedy act in a minstrelsy show Perhaps. But I found the slaves to be witty and intelligent, full of self-agency and cunning that allows them to run circles around their enslavers. The humor also balances the tragedy. For example, we meet Dinah who runs her kitchen in a constant state of controlled chaos despite the efforts of her masters visiting cousin to correct her. Its funny, and just as we get comfortable laughing, we meet Ol Prue who is trying to drink herself to death because her heartless master allowed her baby to starve to death in her arms after Prue stopped biologically producing milk for her child.
Stowe does that. She makes you laugh, then pulls the rug right out from under you.
Ive heard people complain about the character of Uncle Tom years before I read the book. Ive heard the name Uncle Tom used as a pejorative. I believe the perception is that for some, hes too accommodating to his white slavers. I see Tom and the little white girl Eva as Christ-like figures who drive the plot and affect those around them through self-sacrifice, forgiveness, and saint-like ability to love thy enemy.
Uncle Toms Cabin is a two-tracked narrative. It follows Eliza, George, and their child Harrys plight as they escape slavery and make their run to Canada. The second track follows Uncle Tom, who allows himself to be torn away from his family and sold downriver because of his masters financial trouble. Tom reasons that his sacrifice will save his master from having to sell others instead. Toms journey deeper south takes us on a tour of slavery from the well-meaning but hypocritical masters like Augustine St. Clare to the absolutely cruel monsters like Simon Legree. Through Toms experiences, Stowe dispels any myths of benign slavery and ensures us that the entire peculiar institution is irredeemable.
Like a lot of popular nineteenth century novels, Uncle Toms Cabin feels almost like youre watching a stage play where scenes play out with witty dialogue and dramatic coincidences happen just in time, like the couple who argue over what they would do if a runaway came to the door looking for help when suddenly a knock comes to the door and now one of them has to eat his words about following the Fugitive Slave Act when a desperate mother shows up with her child in her arms.
Uncle Toms Cabin is an important piece of American literature. Abraham Lincoln allegedly joked that its the book that started the Civil War. Its also pretty entertaining if you can forgive the mid-nineteenth-century writing and what some people today might deem as insensitive racial depictions. Give it a try and judge for yourself!
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