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| گوینده: | Richard Allen |
| مدت: | 20 hours 8 minutes |
در مزرعهای در کنتاکی، آرتور شلبی که گرفتار بدهی شده، تصمیم میگیرد دو برده خود را بفروشد: تام، مردی میانسال با همسری مهربان و فرزندانی دلبند، و هری، پسر کوچک الیزا، کنیز خانواده. الیزا که از این نقشه باخبر میشود، در شبی سرد و برفی، با کودکش از رودخانه یخزده اوهایو فرار میکند. اما تام، با قلبی سرشار از ایمان، تن به سرنوشت میدهد. او را به نیواورلئان میبرند و به خانوادهای مهربان میفروشند، تا اینکه روزی به دست سایمون لجری، ظالمترین مرد جنوب، میافتد. رمان کلاسیک Uncle Tom’s Cabin روایت دو مسیر متفاوت است: یکی به سوی آزادی و دیگری به سوی عمق تاریکی. هریت بیچر استو با قلمی آتشین، چهره واقعی بردهداری را آنچنان زنده به تصویر کشید که جهان را به لرزه درآورد.
The lives and losses of slaves in the American south are portrayed in Harriet Beecher Stowe’s unflinching indictment of slavery .
When a benevolent landowner decides to sell two slaves—Uncle Tom and Eliza—in order to raise funds, the lives of the two slaves follow divergent paths . The book opens with a Kentucky farmer named Arthur Shelby facing the loss of his farm because of debts. Even though he and his wife Emily Shelby believe that they have a benevolent relationship with their slaves, Shelby decides to raise the needed funds by selling two of them—Uncle Tom, a middle-aged man with a wife and children, and Harry, the son of Emily Shelby’s maid Eliza—to a slave trader. Emily Shelby is averse to this idea because she had promised her maid that her child would never be sold .
When Eliza overhears Mr. and Mrs. Shelby discussing plans to sell Tom and Harry, Eliza determines to run away with her son. Eliza departs that night, leaving a note of apology to her mistress .
Tom is sold and placed on a riverboat which sets sail down the Mississippi River. While on board, Tom meets and befriends a young white girl named Eva. Eva’s father Augustine St. Clare buys Tom from the slave trader and takes him with the family to their home in New Orleans. Tom and Eva begin to relate to one another because of the deep Christian faith they both share. While Eliza escapes to eventual freedom, Uncle Tom is repeatedly sold until he ends up working on the prosperous Legree plantation, where his very life becomes forfeit to his violent master .
Published in 1852, Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel was a powerful indictment of slavery in America. Describing the many trials and eventual escape to freedom of the long-suffering, good-hearted slave Uncle Tom, it aimed to show how Christian love can overcome any human cruelty. Uncle Tom’s Cabin has remained controversial to this day, seen as either a vital milestone in the anti-slavery cause or as a patronizing stereotype of African-Americans, yet it played a crucial role in the eventual abolition of slavery and remains one of the most important American novels ever written .
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