Uncle Tom's Cabin

Find a passage stereotyping black and describing Tom’s reaction to Eva.

chapter 14

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Tom's reaction to Evangeline:

"Tom, who had the soft, impressible nature of his kindly race, ever yearning toward the simple and childlike, watched the little creature with daily increasing interest. To him she seemed something almost divine; and whenever her golden head and deep blue eyes peered out upon him from behind some dusky cottonbale, or looked down upon him over some ridge of packages, he half believed that he saw one of the angels stepped out of his New Testament."

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Uncle Tom's Cabin/ Chapter 14

Evangeline understands and assumes that because Tom is black, he's for sale.

"My papa can buy you," said Eva, quickly; "and if he buys you, you will have good times. I mean to ask him, this very day."

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Uncle Tom's Cabin