How would you characterize St. Clare’s tone throughout his negotiations with Haley?

Stowe uses the sale and transportation of Tom to his new plantation as a means of decrying slavery as a widespread plague infesting the South. It is not coincidental that Tom reads his Bible on the deck of the boat, and then glances up to view the contrasting images of fields of laboring slaves and squalid huts alongside imposing plantation mansions.

Aslan this is not even about St Claire