Uncle Tom's Cabin Chap 18-33
Chapter 18: Miss Ophelia took over management of the house and spent the first few days looking at and rearranging all of the various regions to make them more efficient. In the kitchen however, the slave Dinnah reigned supreme, and Miss Ophelia had a hard time getting the old servant to change her unsystematic ways. One day while in the kitchen, an old slave who brought the bread, Prue, came in and the servants in the St. Clare household began to make fun of her for her drinking. Tom was in the kitchen at the time, and when the woman left, he went to help her carry her basket. She told him her sad story about losing all of her children either by death or to traders, and Uncle Tom told her the story of Jesus. After making her rounds one afternoon, Ophelia went to St. Clare and told him her opinions and he said that he expected the servants to be dishonest because of the way they were raised. He also said that servants as honest and as pious as Tom were rare. As time went on, St. Clare gave Tom the charge over his money and business matters because the slave was so honest and good.Chapter 19: The next week when Prue was supposed to come with her basket, another servant showed up instead. The sl
ave gossiped that her master had killed Prue and the St. Clare's began talking about it around the dinner table. Eva heard of the horror and began crying which upset her father. Later, Ophelia and Augustine had a conversation about the institution of slavery. Augustine told Ophelia his history, and the values instilled in him by his mother. Because he was a man with 'womanly' sentiments, he never made a good planter. His brother, Alfred, was the aristocrat of the two boys, and though after their father died the St. Clare boys began running the plantation together, Augustine soon sold his share. He did not like to abuse slaves, and hated the institution. Ophelia asked him why he did not just free his slaves and he answered it was due to laziness. She did not agree with his opinions, but he said that the system of slavery was not only in the south, but that oppression was everywhere. Chapter 31: The slave owner was Simon Legree, and he was a mean brutish man. While on the boat that would take them upriver to his plantation, Legree went through Tom's trunk full of clothing, and gave him the shabbiest set of clothes he could find. He then sold the rest of Tom's things and told him that he did not like religious slaves. Tom hid his bible and that was the only way he was able to keep it. In the corner of the boat, Emmeline was tied to another mulatto woman slave and woman told her about having to leave her husband and children. Chapter 26: Eva steadily began growing weaker, and one afternoon, she asked her mother to get Miss Ophelia to cut off her curls. Her father asked her why, and she said to give out to her friends. When this was done, she called all of the servants to her room and presented each of them with a lock of her hair to remember her by. Many cried, and she told her father that the rest of her curls were for him. Topsy who had been trying to be good also got a curl and began to cry, and in her last efforts, Eva tried to get her father to convert to Christianity. She also expressed the wish that Tom would be freed when she died, and her father complied. A few more days went by, and then one night at the stroke of midnight, Eva began to die. Her family including Tom gathered around her, and with a joy of one going to heaven, she died. Chapter 20: To prove a point to Ophelia about how to raise black children, Augustine brought a young much abused slave girl named Topsy into the household. St. Clare gave her to Ophelia, and at first, the woman was horrified. She tried to train her, but to no avail. The other children adored Topsy, but though she was extremely bright and quick to learn, she plagued anyone who made her angry. St. Clare thought she was funny, so anytime she got into trouble he would protect her. Ophelia thought that the New England way of raising children was the best through learning to read, sew, and whipping anytime they lied, but none of this worked on Topsy. One day while the trials with Topsy were going on, St. Clare came upon Eva trying to help Uncle Tom write a letter to his family. He was touched and offered to write the letter for him. He did so, and by the end of the evening, the letter was mailed. Chapter 23: The St. Clare family spent their summer at a cottage on the lake, and while their St. Clare's brother Alfred and his son, Henrique, came to visit. One afternoon Henrique and Eva decided to go on a ride and when Henrique's servant, Dodo, brought his horse, Henrique beat him for the horse being dirty. Eva became very angry saying it was not right for him to do, and the hot-tempered boy apologized. Eva made him promise to be kinder to him, and tried to get him to love the boy. While the children were riding, the twin brothers b
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