Seperating Families Through Slave Trading

“‘They want to sell the boy and the old woman together,’ said the man. ‘Find a tight pull-why, she’s an old rack o’ bones, not worth her salt.’ ‘You wouldn’t be then?’ said the man. ‘Anybody’d be a fool ’twould. She’s half blind, crooked with rheumatis, and foolish to boot.’” (Page 121, Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
In this chapter Haley is in his wagon with Tom going around buying more slaves. In this scene he is trying to buy a young boy named Albert without his mother coming with him. Haley seems to like to separate families apart. He doesn’t really care if he buys a son and leaves the mother behind. He sees black people as just property which is despicable. In this chapter Haley buys more slaves and separates them from their families. He buys a man named John and doesn’t give him a chance to say bye to his wife. He also buys a women and her infant and sells the infant to another slave trader. The mother commits suicide because of this. Haley shows no emotion and puts her name under the losses category.