Question

"White southerners often like the black as an individual but despise the race. The white northerners, on the other hand, often professed to like the race but disliked individual Blacks." Obviously, this is a wide-spread observation with some merit, what do you feel would make people feel that way.


What example from Uncle Tom’s Cabin can you use to support the above observation?

Answer 1

To support this observation, we can use the example of the behavior of Senator Bird and his wife when discussing whether to follow religious precepts or the law, about the slaves.

This moment occurs in chapter nine of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" and about this, we can say that:

• The moment Senator Bird and his wife find a runaway slave, they think about helping her, as they are Christians and Christianity is against slavery.
• However, they are afraid to help her as they remember that the Fugitive Slave Act states that such help should not be done.
• They forget the slave's needs and think only of their reputation and virtues. They assert that the law must be followed to maintain social order, even if obedience to Christianism increases the virtue.

This shows how white people, regardless of the region they live in and the opinion they had about slavery, never saw black people as worthy human beings, but acted according to their own will, as if black people should not even be considered as race, nor as individuals.

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