I read Uncle Tom's Cabin years ago but I didn't have a deep impression on it, since I always think the slavery is a very far topic from me. But it is more shocked to read about slavery in the first person narrative. It's like I can feel Jacob's struggling of her identification, her pain of being an enslaved person, her love of her children, her efforts and tolerance for freedom.

When she says in chapter "But, O, ye happy women, whose purity has been sheltered from childhood, who have been free to choose the objects of your affection, whose homes are protected by law, do not judge the poor desolate slave girl too severely!" (Chapter 10: A Perilous Passage in the Slave Girl’s Life), I can feel her despair and pain, as a woman who is abandoned by the law, without its protection. It's really sad for her even can't protect her own purity. A free woman could never imagine even half of the pain. She has many long internal monologues in this chapter to show her deep feelings of fear and sadness. As an enslaved person, she can do nearly nothing to protect herself. I am deeply attracted by the despair experience I never know. It makes feel how bad and dack the slavery was for the first time, with empathy.

Also, female characters are very different from the male characters. Linda decided to escape to the north with her children while her uncle chooses to discard everything including his family for freedom. Linda has the maternal instinct to love and protect her children, which is one of the most important reason she decides to escape no matter how much it costs.