Looking directly at the text, evidence is clear on page 52, when Stowe introduces her readers to Mrs. Shelby for the first time. “Mrs. Shelby was a woman of high class, both intellectually and morally. To that natural magnanimity and generosity of mind which one often marks as characteristic of the women of Kentucky, she added high moral and religious sensibility and principle, carried out with great energy and ability into practical results.” She quickly contr

Mrs. Shelby’s place as the “Angel of the House” is later solidified in the scene when Tom is sold to the slave trader Mr. Haley. When notified of the sale of Tom and George (Eliza’s son), Mrs. Shelby makes a plea to Mr. Shelby in the defense of not selling their slaves. “This is God’s curse on slavery! –a bitter, bitter, most accursed thing! –a curse to the master and a curse to the slave! I was a fool to think I could ever make anything good out of such a deadly evil. It is the sin to hold a slave under laws like ours,-I always felt it was, -I always thought so when I was a girl …”1 Through out this scene it becomes clear that Mrs. Shelby is morally sound in her argument against slavery. Unable to persuade Mr. Shelby to keep Tom and George, the reader still sees his internal conflict in selling the slaves, and Mrs. Shelby’s ability to influence her husband to walk down the path of righteousness. Mrs. Shelby dominates the house, yet in a very lady-like way. She never directly confronts her husband, yet influences his de

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