Little Eva: Being born into a barely Christian, wealthy, slave owning family, it is difficult to understand where Eva’s religious roots commenced. It is true

So, how was it that Augustine St. Clare’s death was meant to affect the readers of Uncle Tom’s Cabin? There is but one main moral to this tragedy: Do not act as St. Clare did and procrastinate all your days; use the present to your advantage, do not plan for things in the future; save yourself while you can and set your slaves free now. This is how Harriet Beecher Stowe meant to emancipate slaves and save the souls of her readers.

destined to die young. Quite a few chapters before Eva’s death, Stowe says, “Has there ever been a child like Eva? Yes, there have been; but their names are always on grave-stones, and their sweet smiles, their heavenly eyes, their singular words and ways, are among the buried treasures of yearning hearts” (Stowe 227).

After being sold to Legree, Tom’s spirits would presumably be broken, but he trudges forward and continues to let his soul receive the message of God. On the Legree plantation, mostly all the slaves have forsaken religion and given up on God, but Tom helps to revive faith in at least a few slaves. Cassy, a house slave, is the most callous of all the workers on this plantation. She is bitter and filled with a pure hatred for life. She gave up on religion long before Tom arrived at the Legree plantation and would not give in to praying no matter how many times Tom asked her. Father Tom, as he was known here because he always carried his Bible and was a symbol of the undead, did finally get Cassy to pray when “[Cassy] had glided out of her place of concealment, and by overhearing, learned the sacrifice that had been made for her and Emmeline....the long winter of despair, the ice of years, had given way, and the dark, despairing woman had wept and prayed” (Stowe 361-362). Sambo and Quimbo were also souls saved by Tom’s appearance on the Legree plantation. When the two slaves cleaned up Tom’s wounds after his final beating, they repented and asked for forgiveness, and just as Jesus would have done, Tom granted them forgiveness and salvation.

that her mother, Marie, went to church every Sunday and her father, St. Clare, was brought up with a religious background, but Eva’s profound dedication to Christianity was not learned from her parents. She is referred to time and time again as a Christ figure because of all the love and Christian advice she spreads around so freely. Miss Ophelia comments, “Well, [Eva’s] so loving! After all, though, she’s no more than Christlike” (Stowe 246). Stowe’s description of Evangeline, “The shape of her head and ...the long golden-brown hair that floated like a cloud around it, the deep spiritual gravity of her violet blue eyes shaded with fringes of golden brown...” makes the little girl appear sincerely angelic (Stowe 126). This child is portrayed as such a rare and special species that it seems she is

Eva died a significantly profound death. Her dying led St. Clare to (want to) repent and do good in the world; therefore doing her part to end the injustices of slavery and save her father’s soul. St. Clare promised Eva that he would do anything for her, even free the slaves, which he planned to do two weeks after her death but was delayed by his main fault, procrastination. Eva’s life and death also influenced Topsy immensely. Before knowing Eva, Topsy had never been loved or even felt loved. Because of the angelic girl’s soft words, Topsy changed her “wicked” ways and became a “good girl.” Eva used what Richard Brodhead, author of Sparing the Rod, called disciplinary intimacy, “a strategic relocation of authority relations in the realm of emotion and a conscious intensification of the emotional bond between the authority figure and its charge,” in order to discipline Topsy (Brodhead 145). Instead of beating her as Miss Ophelia did, Eva looked to touch the little girl’s soul with love and kindness, which evidently was a better and more humane way of disciplining. The

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