Late in the afternoon of a chilly day in February, in the town of P-----, in Kentucky; during the antebellum period. This being in the 1850’s was a time period when slavery was accepted in the south. Eleven years after this story was published (January 1, 1863) President Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation which virtually ended almost 250 years of American slavery (1619-1865). To the Americans, slavery was their right as a person, African Americans were known as …showed first 75 words of 2305 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2305 total…to follow through with what he believed. Uncle Tom not only touched people’s lives physically, he touched their lives spiritually; many lives were changed. As, I think what to write, I start to realize that if Tom had not been sold to Mr. Haley in the first place, he would have never saved Eva’s life, and would have never touched the rest of the lives of all those he came in contact to.