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A book Review of Uncle Tom's Cabin A Book Review of Uncle Tom’s Cabin Harriet Beecher Stowe’s main goal in writing her novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin was to convince people, mainly her fellow northerners, of the need to end slavery by showing it’s evils that are thrust upon black people and to convince all her readers that slavery conflicts with Christian values. To effectively establish her point, Stowe takes us along on the two very separate journeys of the novel’s main characters, Uncle Tom and Eliza Shelby. It is on their journeys that the readers bear witness to the various evils that the system of slavery encompasses. Stowe begins the novel discussing a warm atmosphere on the Shelby plantation and presents to us the best possible circumstances of slavery where slaves are treated very well by compassionate owners. However, no time is wasted in this warm and compassionate setting, not twenty pages into the story we find that even the best masters fall into debt and must settle their bills by what ever means possible. This development quickly brings the reader into the slave world where humans, such as Uncle Tom, are sold to slave traders to settle their master’s debts and it is here that a very strong argument