Tag: Simon Legree and Tom

What do these accounts tell us about slave rebellion, its perils, and its rewards?

Read the following excerpt from Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin Download following excerpt from Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin, involving a confrontation between Simon Legree and Tom, the slave. Compare this fictional account with Douglass’s account of his confrontation with the overseer Covey in Chapter 10 of the