In six pages the ways in which slave owners treated slaves and the trade itself as depicted in these novels are the focus of this comparative analysis that consists of six pages. There are six sources cited in the bibliography.
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and slave life in the 18th century and colonial America. Although both stories are fictional, they nevertheless accurately reflected the slave situations at the time. Subsequent articles researched on the
slave trade have found that largely slave trading was a considered a prosperous commodity in Europe and the colonies and despite the fact that both Stowe and Melville write accounts
which show their opposition to slavery, it was considered acceptable in the 18th century. What surprises readers however in Stowes account is the cruelty of the slave owners to their
slaves, not only on moral grounds but because they basically ruined their financial investments by beating the slaves until they could no longer work or be traded. Additionally, in Melvilles
novella, the character of Captain Delano shows the tremendous racism at the time while at the same time allowing his naivet? in the future of the slaves and the slave
revolt depict the presumptions and prejudices of the "good American". In Harriet Beecher Stowes "Uncle Toms Cabin", Stowe relates the economic consumption behavior
of the slave owners in the south. In describing the actions and the comments of the slave owners, Stowe through the character of Little Eva "demonstrates the economic inefficiencies and
concomitant threat of corporal destruction to the slave workers in the South" (Newbury 159). Through one particular example, Stowe shows through the cruel beating of Tom by Simon Legree how
his cruelty overrules his economic rationality. Tom hears that Legree had spent hundreds, perhaps even thousands of dollars to buy Tom but by the time he is finished beating him,
he is only left with a "valueless corpse". In addition, when George Shelby offers to buy Toms body, Legree states that "I dont sell dead niggers" (Stowe 591).