The Effective Story in Uncle Tom's Cabin Uncle Tom in 1852. Uncle Tom's Cabin reflects the many different attitudes of southerners. as well as the northerners divided into slavery. Overall, it shows the evils of slavery and the cruelty and inhumanity of this particular institution, especially how masters treat their slaves and how families are torn apart because of slavery. The novel centers on a pious slave, Uncle Tom, and how he is sold again and again. It shows the different attitudes that Tom's masters share about slavery and how their slaves should be treated. It also teaches Christian values ​​as well as family values. At the time of its publication, Uncle Tom's Cabin was an immediate success and one of the biggest sellers of all time. Despite the fact that Stowe expresses her own personal opinions, with the very little experience she had with slaves, she delivers a magnificent novel that is still enjoyed by many modern readers today. The timing of the publication of his novel was very important. It was published at the height of the abolitionist movement, in the 1850s. It proved to be very effective propaganda for the abolitionist cause, which Stowe openly supported. Stowe is trying to prove to the reader that slavery is wrong and just plain bad and cruel. She does an effective job of proving her point, while at the same time delivering a superb novel. Stowe constantly strives to prove that slavery is wrong. It opens the novel by showing two slave owners making a trade deal. Mr. Shelby is in debt to Haley, so he must sell Uncle Tom and Harry, separating them from their families. Stowe shows a young slave girl, Eliza, and her affection for her son Harry, when she decides to take her son and run away. This challenges the common belief of the time that slave mothers had less affection for their youth than white women. Uncle Tom is once again sold to the carefree Augustine St. Clare whose philosophy is "Why save time or money, when there is plenty of both?" » Uncle Tom receives good treatment at St. Clare's, which proves that the novel is not one-sided, showing that their slave owners were kind. However, Uncle Tom is sold again, this time up the Red River to "devil" Simon Legree..