Uncle Tom's Cabin

Stowe's writing greatly intrigues me. She writes using the accents of her characters. She writes sympathetically about the family that sold the slaves into horrible lives. She writes religiously about those seen as property. Truly, she writes like an insider who went to the outside to observe. By this I mean that she has a deep knowledge of both circumstance and intention, and can write it in a simply here-is-what-happened way while leading the reader to higher understanding.
She shows that the "flaw" with Uncle Tom near the end of the book was that he was "too stupid" to simply give in and give away the girls' position. Really, the line that separated most of the people from the Uncle Tom in this story was that characters almost always made decisions based on logic and numbers, while the Uncle Tom did things based on conscience and religious beliefs.
Reading this around the same time as "Civil Disobedience" was very revealing, seeing that the slave was the one who stuck to his beliefs and ideals as a Christian, when doing so hurt him much more than it would have any slave-holders who chose to do the same.