ery one does every day." (Page 32) Uncle Tom is Shelby's favorite slave, for he is his most trusted slave. Tom is loyal to his master and cannot dissapoint him and so refuses to escape the previous night with Eliza and Harry. That night when Aunt Chloe heard the news of her husband being sold to a cruel man named Mr. Haley she was devastated that she would be separated from Uncle Tom. Haley takes Uncle Tom to New Orleans on a steamboat. During this trip, Tom saves a little girl named Eva from drowning and she has convinced her father that he must buy Uncle Tom for their plantation. Life on the St. Clare plantation is very pleasant, but has always missed his family. St. Clare helps him to write a letter to his family, Georg
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