![]() ![]() ![]() In order to regain his control, he ordered George back to the farm to work. When George's master visited the factory, he was mad that a mere slave could possess more confidence and intelligence than himself. When Harry survived, Eliza finally settled and became overprotective of the boy. ![]() George and Eliza married and lost two children in the first two years. The manufacturer, impressed, encouraged George to marry as well as he could. Intelligent and excellent at his job, he designed a new way to clean hemp mechanically at the factory. George was handsome, strong and confident. She married a handsome mulatto (mixed-race) man named George Harris, who worked at a neighboring factory. Shelby as her favorite, and, as such, possesses an unusual air of refinement normally reserved for high-class women. The narrator gives some background on Eliza, the beautiful young woman in Chapter 1. She is unaware of his debt, and, knowing her husband's kind nature doesn't believe him capable of selling the boy. He agrees to talk to his wife about selling the boy even though he doesn't believe a mother and child should have to be separated.Įliza listens at the door for the last part of the conversation and worries that Mr. Haley is struck by her extreme beauty and tells Shelby that he could sell her for a fortune however, Shelby has no wish to sell her. A young woman walks in, the boy's mother, Eliza. The gentlemen laugh, and the boy is given some fruit as a reward. ![]() Shelby asks him to do several impersonations. He asks that Shelby give him another slave as well, a boy or girl.Īt that time, a young Negro boy named Jim Crow walks in and Mr. Shelby presents Tom as an honest, Christian fellow, but Haley dismisses the idea that blacks can truly be religious. Shelby is trying to get Haley, a slave-trader from further down south, to buy a slave named Tom. He is hesitant to part with any of his workers, as he is attached to them, but feels as if it can't be avoided. Shelby is in debt, and must sell one of his slaves in order to survive. The first is a stout, gaudy man named Haley the second, a gentleman of true class named Mr. On a February afternoon in Kentucky, two gentlemen sit outside on a porch, deep in conversation. Volume I Chapter 1: In Which the Reader is Introduced to a Man of Humanity ![]()
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