Uncle Tom's Cabin: An anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe having a profound effect on attitudes toward African Am

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Arthur Shelby, a gentle owner of a large plantation in America, makes the weak decision to sell his beloved old slave, Uncle Tom, a generous and kind-hearted black man, to Haley, a ruthless slave trader. Tom accepts his fate. While traveling on the river with Haley, he saves a girl who has fallen into the water, and her grateful father buys him, intending to make him his coachman. Perhaps a better future opens up for Tom.