Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

How long have I heard of this famous book and not yet read it? A long, long time. My wife recently read the book, talking about it in glowing terms on many an occasion. I am now so glad I've read it--it was a great read. A hard read, for sure. Hard things to hear and vicariously to "live" through. Though fiction, as the author states at the conclusion, these characters, their stories and the context of their sufferings, were based on true events & people that the author heard about in her lifetime. Sad, sad, sad. Horrible. Some parts hopeful and encouraging--seeing the faith of slaves who were treated so horribly. What a divide this whole issue of slavery caused in our nation, since its beginning. What a terrible cancer on our land; a blight on all our ideals and hopes & dreams & values. A dark hypocrisy of grandest proportions that contradicted our nation's yearnings for freedom and that ran against biblical principles (despite those who took the Bible totally out of context to support their fallacious beliefs). But, yes, even in the midst of so much suffering, dislocation, unfairness, injustice--there were glimmers of hope because of the Gospel that transformed evil human hearts.


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