Why did St Clare's wife sell Uncle Tom to Simon in Uncle Tom's Cabin?

Because she is a selfish, cold and evil woman, she thinks that Tom can sell a lot of money, so she refuses to satisfy the wishes of her husband and daughter and let Tom be free.

Uncle Tom's Cabin and various dramas inspired by it have also promoted the emergence of a large number of black stereotypes, which are well known to people today. For example, the kind black nanny, the prototype of black children, the patient and loyal uncle Tom who is obedient to the white master.

In recent decades, these negative elements in Uncle Tom's Cabin have weakened the historical role of this book as an "important anti-slavery tool" to some extent.

Theme of the work

The whole book Uncle Tom's Cabin revolves around the same theme: the evil and immorality of slavery. When Mrs. Stowe writes minor themes in her writing-such as mother's moral authority and the possibility of redemption offered by Christianity-she always emphasizes the connection between these themes and the horror of slavery.

In almost every page of the novel, Mrs. Stowe is actively promoting the theme of "immoral slavery", and sometimes she even changes the narrative tone of the story.

In order to "preach" the destructiveness of slavery to people (for example, on a boat carrying Tom to southern States, a white woman said, "The most terrible thing about slavery is trampling on feelings and family ties-for example, breaking up people's flesh and blood." Through the description of slavery breaking up other people's families, Mrs. Stowe showed the evil of slavery in words.