Shelby asks him to do several impersonations. He asks that Shelby give him another slave as well, a boy or girl.Īt that time, a young Negro boy named Jim Crow walks in and Mr. Shelby presents Tom as an honest, Christian fellow, but Haley dismisses the idea that blacks can truly be religious. Shelby is trying to get Haley, a slave-trader from further down south, to buy a slave named Tom. He is hesitant to part with any of his workers, as he is attached to them, but feels as if it can't be avoided. Shelby is in debt, and must sell one of his slaves in order to survive. The first is a stout, gaudy man named Haley the second, a gentleman of true class named Mr.
On a February afternoon in Kentucky, two gentlemen sit outside on a porch, deep in conversation. Volume I Chapter 1: In Which the Reader is Introduced to a Man of Humanity
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