St. Clare family
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The St. Clare family is a fictional Southern slaveholding household featured in Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel "Uncle Tom’s Cabin," known for its complex moral portrayals of slavery and domestic life.
Statements (41)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional family
ⓘ
slaveholding household ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Uncle Tom’s Cabin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsInMedium | novel ⓘ |
| associatedWithCharacter |
Augustine St. Clare
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Eva St. Clare NERFINISHED ⓘ Marie St. Clare NERFINISHED ⓘ Ophelia St. Clare NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryInFiction | United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| createdBy | Harriet Beecher Stowe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fictionalTimePeriod | antebellum era ⓘ |
| firstPublishedIn | Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genreOfWork |
abolitionist literature
ⓘ
social protest novel ⓘ |
| hasMember |
Augustine St. Clare
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Eva St. Clare NERFINISHED ⓘ Marie St. Clare NERFINISHED ⓘ Ophelia St. Clare NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSettingElement |
domestic servants
ⓘ
urban mansion ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
conflict between Christian ethics and slavery
ⓘ
family relationships under slavery ⓘ sentimental domestic ideology ⓘ |
| householdHead | Augustine St. Clare NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| literarySignificance |
example of paternalistic slaveholding
ⓘ
vehicle for anti-slavery critique ⓘ |
| locatedInFictionalRegion | American South NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInFictionalSetting | New Orleans NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction |
to contrast with the brutality of the Legree plantation
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to depict a comparatively lenient slaveholding household ⓘ |
| owns |
Topsy
NERFINISHED
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Uncle Tom NERFINISHED ⓘ household slaves ⓘ |
| portraysTheme |
Christian morality
ⓘ
domestic life in the antebellum South ⓘ hypocrisy of benevolent slavery ⓘ moral complexity of slaveholding ⓘ slavery ⓘ |
| socialClass | Southern planter aristocracy ⓘ |
| stateInFiction | Louisiana NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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