The book, Uncle Tom’s cabin, takes the reader through two very different insights of slavery: the conquest of freedom and the decline of Uncle Tom. Stowe places the reader in the story by including every aspect that a slave would live through. She expresses religion and mortality from both the south and the north. Stowe shows the treatment of slaves living in all kinds of conditions.
             The book starts out in a calm, settling way. The slaves are with a nice family and are happy. Then, Stowe takes the reader through an ironic twist. A slave trader comes to Mr. Shelby’s house, and in return for a debt, he wants two slaves. The slave trader wants Tom, a hard working, religious man, and Eliza’s young child. Tom accepts what has happened, looks to the Lord and does what is expected. On the other hand, Eliza runs away and takes her son with her before the new owner could claim her. Ironically, the reader would assume that Uncle Tom is bound for freedom, and Eliza is bound for decline.
             Stowe creates her characters in a way that describes each of her views, and each character resembles a real life situation
             Like the majority of Stowe’s character, religion plays a major role showing the beliefs and faiths of northerners, southerners, the well-treated slaves, and the badly treated slaves.
             Miss Ophelia is a character who resembles the north. She is a cousin of St. Clare, a rich man that treats his slaves fairly. Miss Ophelia arrives in the south with her northern views to help St. Clare manage his household. She is against slavery, but still does not feel equal to blacks. She expresses her views to St. Clare. “I tell you Augustine, I can’t get…. It’s a perfect abomination for you to defend such a system, -that’s my mind.” Page.222
             Although she feels that slavery is wrong her misunderstanding of the race makes her feel uneasily
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