Atomic Kommie Comics: Reading Room: UNCLE TOM'S CABIN Part 2

Tuesday, February 21, 2012

Reading Room: UNCLE TOM'S CABIN Part 2

Depending on your sensitivity, may be NSFW...

First edition cover. Art by Rolland Livingstone.

We have already seen..
Running up large debts, Kentucky farmer Arthur Shelby faces the prospect of losing everything.

He raises money by selling two of his slaves, Uncle Tom (a middle-aged man with wife and children), and Harry (young son of maid Eliza), to Mr. Haley, a coarse slave trader.

When Shelby tells his wife about his agreement with Haley, she is appalled because she has promised Eliza that Shelby would not sell her son.

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Eliza overhears the conversation and, after warning Uncle Tom, takes Harry and flees to the North, hoping to find freedom with her husband, George, in Canada.

Haley pursues her, but two other Shelby slaves alert Eliza to the danger.

She miraculously evades capture by crossing the half-frozen Ohio River, the boundary separating Kentucky from the North.

Haley hires a slave hunter named Loker to capture Eliza and Harry, who make their way to a Quaker settlement.

They are joined at the settlement by George, who reunites joyously with his family for the trip to Canada.

Meanwhile, Uncle Tom sadly leaves his family and travels with Haley by Mississippi riverboat to a slave market.

On the boat, Tom meets a little girl named Eva, who befriends him.