Courage Through Faith

In the next section of this book, i learned something that's relatively new. I learned that slaves will turn to god when ever a misfortune happens. for example, In the next scene, Mr. Shelby is going to cell Harry and his father Tom. I just happens that Eliza overheard the conversation between Mr. and Mrs Shelby and runs frighteningly to his husband Tom. When Tom heard the news, the encouraged Eliza run off to the north with her son Harry. However, Eliza replied with, "trust god." They are religious to the point where they are trusting their son in the hand of god. This is understandable because the only hope that the slaves have is in god. There is no authority figure that they can turn to ask for help. Also the only reading that they are allowed to do is religion related stuff. Even in our time, people tend to turn to god when nothing else is working. Even though most of us realize that god probably don't even exist, but we still pray. Why? for the same reason why the slaves of this time are counting on god. it is because there is no other comfort that we can draw upon. When all road leads to a dead end, God is the way to go.