Uncle Tom's Cabin

to obey her husband and not question southern ideas. She owns and loves Eliza, her chambermaid. The only time she actually condemns slavery and her husband is when she discovers Arthur has sold Eliza's son Harry. When Eliza runs away, Emily is quietly jubilant. George Shelby is Arthur's oldest son and friend of Tom. When he grows to manhood he tracks down Uncle Tom and talks to Tom before he dies. Afterwards he releases all the slaves on his now dead father's plantation. Eliza is a beautiful one quarter black slave on the Shelby plantation and the mother of Harry. She runs form the plantation when she learns Harry is to be sold. After being chased by slave catchers she reunites with her husband George Harris and they all escape to Canada. George Harris is a fiercely independent half-black slave married to Eliza even though he lives on another plantation. His master used to let him wok at a factory where he made a great invention. After that however, he is not permitted to wok in the f
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