THE CURE FOR LONELINESS (2 OF 4)
Scripture: Ecclesiastes 4
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The Cure for Loneliness (2 of 4)
Series: Ecclesiastes
Michael White
Ecclesiastes 4
Harriet Beecher Stowe's 1851 novel Life Among the Lonely, more popularly known as Uncle Tom's Cabin provides a vivid description of life for an African slave in the Antebellum era. It tells the story of Uncle Tom, a hard working and devoutly Christian slave, who, as a result of his master's debts is ripped from his wife and children, and embarks on a journey from slave master to slave to slave master into the brutal cotton fields of the deep south.
In the midst of this trial he witnesses the suicide of a mother, whose infant son was stolen from her and sold, a slave trader's cruel objectification, wishing only to make a profit to the detriment of his slaves, and most notably, the sadistic abuse of the power hungry plantation owner, Simon Legree, who is perhaps one of the greatest villains in American literature.
Seeing slaves as nothing more than feelingless objects, Legree uses and abuses them as he pleases. Upon purchasing a number of slaves, he informs them that when his ''property'' becomes ill or injured, he doesn't allow them to rest. He would just assume continue to drive them as hard as he can until they are of no use to him- and he simply replaces them with new slaves.
Legree forces his slaves to work 7 days a week, in the hot Mississippi sun for nearly every waking hour of the day, tediously picking cotton, constantly policed by his 2 black slave foreman, just as abusive as he. The slaves are given very little food, which they must prepare, at the end of the day, collapse in exhaustion, and do it all over again.
One evening while the slaves bring their cotton to be weighed and the weight of one woman's bag found insufficient, Legree, hoping to eventually promote Tom to be one of his brutal foremen, demands that he beat the woman into submission.
When Tom humbly refuses and explains that he could never do such a thing, he himself is beaten and abused ...
Series: Ecclesiastes
Michael White
Ecclesiastes 4
Harriet Beecher Stowe's 1851 novel Life Among the Lonely, more popularly known as Uncle Tom's Cabin provides a vivid description of life for an African slave in the Antebellum era. It tells the story of Uncle Tom, a hard working and devoutly Christian slave, who, as a result of his master's debts is ripped from his wife and children, and embarks on a journey from slave master to slave to slave master into the brutal cotton fields of the deep south.
In the midst of this trial he witnesses the suicide of a mother, whose infant son was stolen from her and sold, a slave trader's cruel objectification, wishing only to make a profit to the detriment of his slaves, and most notably, the sadistic abuse of the power hungry plantation owner, Simon Legree, who is perhaps one of the greatest villains in American literature.
Seeing slaves as nothing more than feelingless objects, Legree uses and abuses them as he pleases. Upon purchasing a number of slaves, he informs them that when his ''property'' becomes ill or injured, he doesn't allow them to rest. He would just assume continue to drive them as hard as he can until they are of no use to him- and he simply replaces them with new slaves.
Legree forces his slaves to work 7 days a week, in the hot Mississippi sun for nearly every waking hour of the day, tediously picking cotton, constantly policed by his 2 black slave foreman, just as abusive as he. The slaves are given very little food, which they must prepare, at the end of the day, collapse in exhaustion, and do it all over again.
One evening while the slaves bring their cotton to be weighed and the weight of one woman's bag found insufficient, Legree, hoping to eventually promote Tom to be one of his brutal foremen, demands that he beat the woman into submission.
When Tom humbly refuses and explains that he could never do such a thing, he himself is beaten and abused ...
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