Book Release From Dallas C Terrell

Introducing Who Kidnapped and Meditations.

What: Two books, Who Kidnapped Uncle Tom and Why it Matters?

Meditations From the Cabin.

Who: Author Dallas C Terrell

Why: These two books are the first release of a series of books inspired by the

Book, Uncle Tom’s Cabin or Life Among the Lowly written in 1852 by

Mrs. Harriet Beecher-Stowe.

Book Who Kidnapped Uncle Tom and Why It Matters

Summary

Who Author Dallas C. Terrell was born March 17, 1963, in St. Louis, Missouri. He has been living in Huntsville Alabama since 1989. He has been an Uncle Tom’s Cabin fan since age 12 and has done much research on it and the circumstances surrounding the era in which it was published in 1852. Dallas works professionally as an exercise wellness and performance enhancement specialist.

Title This is a book that explores the devolution of the Uncle Tom character using the parallel streams of Harriet Beecher's Stowe's Tom along side of American history, specifically from the experience of the descendants of African American slaves. Traveling through the stages of scandalization, demonization, marginalization, weaponization and and finally the politicization of the Uncle Tom character, this book connects the events, people, groups, and ideologies highlighting what he identifies as an underlying spiritual conflict of “Plantation Politics.”

Stated Goals

Educate The reader to Harriet Beecher Stowe. Also to the conception, inception and reception of the Novel Uncle Tom's Cabin.

Encourage Individuals to read or reread Uncle Tom's Cabin and Stowe’s companion publication, Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin.

Equip The reader with a blueprint or mindset by which the characters of the novel can be understood and appreciated, and learn it’s valuable and timeless lessons.

Enlighten Readers to the ideologies of ethnocentrism and tribalism at the expense of truth and demonstrate the negative roles that they have played down through history. Specifically, in the deconstruction of Stowe's Uncle Tom, along with its effect upon contemporary society, our relationships, and community progress and cooperation.

Embrace The truth concerning the connectedness and of the human family. Challenging the concept of “multiple races of humans” making up or constituting one human race. To open the door to acknowledging and appreciating the fact that we are more alike than different, and those differences need not become a hindrance to cohesive, edifying, and respectful dialogue.

Invoke The spirit of Stowe and other like-hearted individuals active in pro-freedom activities prominently running throughout the novel. The virtues of mutual respect, personal humility, and dedication to a cause bigger than themselves, yields both inspiration and instruction to generation upon generations. Their shared commitment to the valued principles of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness for all of America's citizens, allowed them to keep their focus upon the major business of emancipation.

Exercise Engagement Infusing positive energy, bound within the cords of humility, love, and Grace, in fostering environments of mutual understanding and collaboration in the building of communities to be places of growth, opportunity, and progress for all.

Who Kidnapped Uncle Tom and Why It Matters is the combination of its author's, life-learning journey of observing and sometimes obsessing, to gain greater understanding of human interpersonal interaction and communication, in how they interplay within the overall scheme of building community.

Table of Contents

Dedication 1

Preface 2

Introduction 3

Chapter 1

Uncle Tom’s Cabin 4

The Book Itself 5

The Book’s Main Characters 6

Who is the True Hero of Uncle Tom’s Cabin 7

Key Influences in the Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe 8

Chapter 2

Uncle Tom’s Cabin Opposition 9

Anti-Uncle Tom Cabin Arguments From theBible……………………………………………………………….10

Top Pro-White Anti-Tom’s Cabin………………………………………………………………………………………11

Top Pro-Black Anti-Tom’s Cabin………………………………………………………………………………………12

Chapter 3

Anti-Tom Into the 20th Century

Chapter 4

Uncle Tom the Character………………………………………………………………………………………………..…14

Rightly Presented 15

Uncle Tom and Forgiveness 16

Uncle Tom and Power 17

The Good News of Uncle Tom 18

Chapter 5

Black Anti-Tom Behavior

Why Blacks Loath Uncle Tom 20

Black on Black Uncle Tom 21

Uncle Tom and the N-word 22

Uncle Tom and the Spirit of “Black-Face” 23

The Origin of “The Coon” 24

Debating and Dehumanizing 25

Chapter 6

The Harlem Renaissance, the Communist Party, and the “New Negro” 26

The Communists and the “New Negro” 27

The Communists and the Negro Mind 28

Communism. Activism or Agitation

The Communists and Their Colored Comrades 29

The Communists and a Short Train Ride 30

Chapter 7

Black Leadership: Three Profiles 31

Malcom X Matters 32

Martin Luther King Matters 33

Richard Wright Matters 34

Chapter 8

“Race” and How it Matters 35

How Did We Get Here 36

Race Based Ideology and the Tyranny of Hate 37

The “Christian” Church in America 38

Chapter 9

Uncle Tom’s Cabin an Abolitionism 39

Abolitionism, its Scope 40

Abolitionism, the Integration of its Spheres 41

Abolitionism, the Bridge to Liberty 42

Chapter 10

Abolition; Five Fingers One Hand

Political Abolition

Religious Abolition

Negro Abolition

Female Abolition

Anglo Abolition

Abolitionism: A Work for All

Chapter 11

Who Kidnapped Uncle Tom and Why it Matters 44

In Our Child Rearing 45

In Our Classrooms 46

In Our Conversations 47

In Our Communities

In Our Churches 48

Chapter 12

A Challenge to the Body of Christ 49

Afterword 50

Epilogue 51

Appendix 52

1) The “Curse of Ham”

2) What about Philemon?

3) “Buck Breaking”

4) Mr. Theodore D. Weld

5) Mr. Elijah P. Lovejoy

6) Malcom X: The Chinese Revolution

7) Grace, Grace, Amazing Grace

8) Stowe and Wilberforce

9) Parting Words

Little Eva

The Harris Family

George Shelby

Uncle Tom

10) “Lift Every Voice and Sing

Afterword

“And the same day Pilate and Herod were made friends together; for before they were

at enmity between themselves “. Luke 23:12 KJV

Thus, it is recorded, two men that were enemies one towards another, were made friends for the cause against Christ. No doubt in the council of heaven it was God ‘s will that many would become one body in Christ. Indeed, hate and sin make for strange bedfellows. Pilate and Herod had deep seated hate between each other on many fronts. Both men were tightly shackled in chains of arrogance and fear. Though both held powerful positions and there was always lingering, in recesses of their minds, that their rule could all come crashing to earth in but a moment of time. There were those in their inner circles, that given the right set of circumstances, would literally stab them in the back and take their place in the position of power.

Harriet beecher Stowe’s character, Uncle Tom was hated and despise by those in 1852 who were threatened by his Christlike character. These were of the sort that by their own admission, considered themselves as belonging to a “Superior Class” of human beings. Likewise, this same Tom, starting in the early 1900’s and leading up to this very day is despised, slandered, scorned, and hated. Those who are ignorant of the truth will be antagonistic toward those who walk in truth. By their own admission, they proclaim that their brand of “Blackness” is of a superior grade above those who do not share their world view. If you, who are reading this, find yourself, this sort, I pray that you might come out from among them. Focus on the big picture and consider your manner. Unity need not be uniformity. May we borrow from the words of Booker T Washington spoken in another context, yet very applicable here.

“In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress”

Booker T Washington

It is my closing prayer that you today, who know the truth, would walk in therein. May your journey be in step with the character of Christ. May his love illuminate your path, insulate, your heart, inspire your mind, and ignite your actions. May all that you set your heart to do, be not for the praise of others, but unto the Glory of God.

Introduction

Meditations From the Cabin

The following is a collection of insights that I have derived from the 1852 best-selling novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin. The author Harriet Beecher Stowe said, “I did not write it, but God did, I just did the dictation.” It is with this idea in mind that she conveys that there is a story within the story and a message overriding the message. These meditations have been selected in the order that they appear within the novel. They can be used as a companion as you read Uncle Tom’s Cabin, or simply as a time of daily or weekly devotions.

Stowe addresses the reality of slavery as she had come to know it. She also wrote to challenge, the widespread apathy that she witnessed among those who identified themselves as Patriots and or Christ followers concerning the institution of slavery, ethnic prejudice, and discrimination. While not discounting the Constitutional or scientific aspects that were being used at this time, to justify the enslavement of the African descendants, she was convinced that the underlying issue facing America was a spiritual one. Therefore, the physical, economic, and social aspects of slavery pointed to the greater element of spiritual bondage of the soul. The self-deception of human pride, arrogance, and willful ignorance, provide for the chains and shackles of this reality.

In the United States the “All Created Equal” clause was being ignored, redefined, and denied. “The pursuit of happiness” had been elevated to that of idolatrous status. Furthermore, “Greatest Commandment(s),” declared by Jesus Christ of loving God with one’s total being, and their neighbor as themselves was being violated on a whole-scale basis. The Christian life is one that involves spiritual battles from within and without. The Jesus, others, and yourself paradigm (JOY) is often flipped and the “yourself” aspect gets placed into the position of priority (YOJ). Stowe, throughout Uncle Tom’s Cabin, drives home the truth that human pride lies at the heart of the institution of slavery and the rebellion against living the God-dependent life. These devotions, I have identified as important spiritual lessons from the novel, and it is my intention to help you my reader, grow deeper in your spiritual walk.

It is my heartfelt prayer that these devotions will challenge and encourage you, in your endeavors to live, move, and have your being, within the Liberty of the Spirit. As you spend these precious moments of meditation In Your Cabin, may you grow in your appreciation of how much Jesus your Messiah loves you.

Now, may the Love of Christ fill, flood, and flow through you, onto others. Amen!

Meditations from the Cabin

Table of Contents.

Introduction

1) The Bottom Line

2) How to Fight

3) But God

4) Life Among the Lowly

5) Rightly Presented

6) No Greater Love

7) For the Cause of Christ

8) From Glory unto Glory

9) The Healing Power of Grace

10) The Only Bible

11) No Respecter of Persons

12) Compassion Returned

13) As it is in Heaven

14) His Glory and Grace

15) In Remembrance of Me

16) A Clean Heart

17) I Shall not be Shaken

18) Grow Where Your Planted

19) When God Does not make Sense

20) Is God Here?

21) It’s not about You

22) I am Persuaded

23) Count it all joy

24) When People hurt

25) The love of Christ

26) Be Still and Know

27) The power of weakness

28) Crucified with Christ

29) Answered prayer

30) Fight the good fight

31) Reflecting God’s Glory

32) To Live is Christ

33) Forgiveness

34) God honoring servanthood

35) The Emptying

36) The Good Samaritan

37) Grace-ism

38) God’s Perfect P’s

A Parting Note

Grow Where You Are Planted.

“I’m yo church now! You understand, you’ve gat’a be as I Say!” Chapter 31

Legree, representing the personification of Pride and evil towards God, is demanding that Tom denounce his allegiance to Jesus Christ. For Legree to feel secure about his own identity, he expected his slaves to cower and fear him as if he was God. As somewhat of an orientation, he tells his newly purchased slaves the rules of his plantation. He wanted Tom to know that he was the final word. No one or no thing, was to become between his authority and his slaves.

Tom, on the other hand, made it clear at the outset to Legree and all the others under his influence, that his security was anchored within his relationship with his savior. It made no difference to Tom what his new earthly master did or said, he would not be intimidated nor persuaded to be anyone, besides who we really was.

“Fear not! For I have redeemed thee. I have called thee by my name. Thou art mine.” Isaiah 43:1 ESV

Jesus was ridiculed and mocked by the religious and cultural gatekeepers as one being a glutton, drunkard, an associate of extortioners, and a traitor (Matthew 11:19). For the religious and the cultural elite to agree upon anything was a major occurrence. The question then became, just what did they have in common? They shared an insecurity in their identities as leaders. Their positions of influence were dictated by others who benefited by their actions. Their power was maintained by their exercise of fear upon the people. Their very system had as its foundation, well placed propaganda, and a web of lies. Jesus, the very essence of truth, would naturally threaten them. Absolute truth will always be at odds with human opinions.

The connection that Stowe is establishing here in relation to slavery is that the whole system is flimsy, for it is built on falsehoods. Ethnic and class bigotry is a spiritual issue. The battles, though pitched in a physical environment, has its area of command in the spiritual realm. The many debates concerning slavery were at its core, a battle between righteousness and evilness. There was no middle ground of neutrality either you stood on the side of right or wrong.

Today we must not lose sight of the reality that as followers of Christ and seekers of righteousness, our identity and purpose is derived from our physical origin and our spiritual relationship with God. Our value is inherently based upon our Creator God. We are not the byproduct of an uncaused accident of non-sourced chemicals. One human race with one eternal Creator who is active and all-wise. Our spiritual life is established upon the blood bought, paid in-full, purchase of Jesus Christ. Realizing that we have been fully redeemed there is no need to except a buy-out from the Devil or the World. Therefore, the Apostle Paul admonishes from the vantage point of death row.

“Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling, for it is God who is at work in you, both to will and to do, for His good pleasure.” Philippians 2:12-13 ESV

Whether our experience brings persecution or prosperity, we must not become self focused on our present circumstances. We must not ever lose sight of our purpose. God’s program for our life, may have us working under a St. Clare or a Legree, however we are to work as unto the Lord. Paul was a prisoner of Caesar in Rome, yet he declared himself to be a bondservant and prisoner to the Lord Jesus Christ. Our lives are hidden in Christ. We have all that we need to be content in seasons of plenty and times of need. We must Grow where we are planted. Submit to the wisdom of the Father and promptings of the Holy Spirit.” Settle the debate within your own heart, then go and grow forth, Glorifying God. Amen