The first example I will give is a quote by Mr. Wilson to George Harris, Eliza's husband, when he learns of his escape. George is demoralized and abused during his life at the plantation of his master. His wife Eliza, and their child, live at another plantation and they are forbidden to see each other. His master has ordered him to take another servant woman at his plantation to wife. Knowing

Another example of misquoting the Bible occurs above deck on a boat that is carrying slaves bought by Mr. Haley, a slave trader who bought Uncle Tom and Harry earlier in the book. There are a couple women speaking of slavery and their contrasting opinions on it. One feels that it is an outrageous sin, while the other believes that Negroes are better off enslaved than free. A clergyman overhears their conversation and offers his own scriptural justification: "It's undoubtedly the intention of Providence that the African race should be servants,---kept in a low condition. 'Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be,' the Scripture says" (p. 135). A tall, thin man counterattacks by saying, "'All things whatsoever ye would that men should do unto you, do you even so unto them', that is Scripture, as much as 'Cursed be Canaan'" (p.136). This man is saying that not always should one take Scripture in the literal meaning.

Hagar was the maid-servant of Abraham and Sarah. Both Abraham and Sarah were very old and Sarah had not yet born a child to Abraham. Feeling she had no way of giving him a child to continue the family beyond their own, she asked Abraham to take her maid-servant, Hagar, to wife. She hoped that Hagar would give Abraham a son. Abraham indeed took Hagar to wife and she conceived a child. Faced with this reality, Sarah despised Hagar for her ability to give Abraham what she could not. She became very angry and Hagar ran away in fear. She did not wish to be despised. an angel of God appeared to Hagar and asked why she had left and where she would go. The angel told Hagar to return to Sarah and submit herself. She was supposed to return because it was Abraham's child, and she would bear a son. This son would be named Ishmael.

Uncle Tom has been sold to Augustine and Marie St. Clare. They have a daughter, Eva, who is quite fond of Tom, as is Mr. St. Clare. Marie dislikes slaves, though she has never herself owned one, and despises the closeness of Tom to her daughter. She feels that Negroes deserve to be slaves, and makes known her belief that slavery in commanded in the Bible. Her husband disagrees, telling her slavery is convenient. He strongly feels that were it not financially beneficial to the South, the Bible would take on entirely new interpretation. Their disagreements over slavery are an obstacle in their marriage. Earlier that morning, Mr. St. Clare overheard Tom praying on behalf of the St. Clares. It is here in the story that Mr. St. Clare begins to see the true goodness within Tom.

Onesimus was a servant to Philemon. For a reason unclear, yet probably wrong-doing or debt, Onesimus fled from Philemon. During his absence from Philemon, the gospel was taught to him by th

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