Eliza Harris

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Eliza Harris is a courageous enslaved woman in Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin," best known for her dramatic escape across the frozen Ohio River to save her child from being sold.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf African American woman in fiction
enslaved woman
fictional character
literary character
appearsIn Uncle Tom's Cabin
associatedWithTheme Christian faith
abolitionism
family separation under slavery
moral courage
motherhood
slavery
basedOn real-life fugitive enslaved people
createdBy Harriet Beecher Stowe
fictionalUniverse Uncle Tom's Cabin
gender female
hasChild Harry Harris
influencedByContext 19th-century American slavery
languageOfWork English
marriedTo George Harris
nationalityInFiction American
notableFor attempt to save her child from being sold
dramatic escape across the frozen Ohio River
performsAction crosses the frozen Ohio River
escapes from Kentucky
flees slave catchers
protects her son from being sold
seeks freedom in the Northern United States
portrayedAs courageous
devoted mother
morally upright
religionInFiction Christianity
roleInWork supporting protagonist
settingOfActions Kentucky
Ohio River
free states in the Northern United States
statusAtBeginningOfWork enslaved
statusAtEndOfWork free
symbolizes maternal love
the cruelty of slavery
the quest for freedom
workGenre anti-slavery novel
workPublicationYear 1852

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Elizabeth hasVariant Eliza Harris
this entity surface form: Eliza
Uncle Tom's Cabin mainCharacter Eliza Harris