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Uncle Tom decides not to try to escape he sees it as his duty to be sold as his master intended. They are taken in by a Quaker family and reunited with George Harris, who has been traveling in the guise of a Spanish gentleman. At the Ohio River, in the middle of winter, Eliza jumps with Harry from ice floe to floe and lands in Ohio. Haley is furious at Eliza’s escape and attempts to track her, traveling with Sam, a cunning slave of Shelby’s. Sometime after George has already left, Eliza overhears the Shelbys discussing Tom and Harry’s sale, and she and Harry flee toward Ohio, with the idea of reaching Canada. George has decided to escape, rather than waste his life laboring in the fields for his jealous master who removed him from the factory. Eliza is married to George Harris of another plantation, a fair-skinned slave who once worked in a factory where he showed great ingenuity. Haley presses Shelby to sell Uncle Tom, Shelby’s most trustworthy slave, and Harry, the fair-skinned child of Eliza, maid to Mrs. Shelby, a gentleman and farmer, discusses a debt he owes to Haley, a slave-trader. On his Kentucky plantation in the 1840s, Mr.
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