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Uncle Tom’s Cabin The novel that we are going to analyze is Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stow. This novel had a great impact in the pursuit of abolishing slavery in the middle of the 19th century. During this era Christianity, the self-made man and true womanhood were values that society considered to be great. In fact, during this period the second great awakening had an enormous impression in both black and white people. Both races became involved in reform movements to get rid of prostitution, alcohol and sinners, and eventually abolish slavery. As a result, in my opinion Stow in this novel made it clear that race had the most similarities between black and white followed by gender and class respectively. Stow emphasized differences in class the least because class should not determine our religious and political beliefs towards slavery. To begin we will focus on St. Clare who is considered upper class and young master George whom is middle class. Both of these characters show a lot of compassion for the slaves. Stow describes St. Clare as caring and sentimental person towards slaves, for example, “I have the same love that I have know for all kinds of human things…”(Pg 257) Similar to young mast