Uncle Tom’s Cabin: resumen de Chapter 30

Qué sucede

1. Tom and the other St. Clare servants enter Mr. Skeggs’s depot, where forced merriment masks distress and Sambo provokes Adolph into fighting.
2. Mr. Skeggs punishes Tom and Adolph without investigating the fight.
3. Susan and Emmeline spend the night fearing separation, discussing faith, and planning how to attract a respectable buyer.
4. Mr. Skeggs orders Emmeline to restore her curls because they increase her price, defeating Susan’s effort to make her look plain.
5. At the auction, Alf buys Adolph, and the brutal stranger who inspects Tom becomes Tom’s owner.
6. Susan’s buyer cannot afford Emmeline; Mr. Legree buys her, and B. & Co. receives the sale proceeds two days afterward.

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En qué fijarte

Susan must appeal to a purchaser to preserve her family. Her plea exposes how little control she has over her daughter’s fate.

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