# Sam — Uncle Tom’s Cabin character guide

> Sam in Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Black Sam

**First appearance:** 0004-volume-i-v-showing-the-feelings-of-living-property-on-changing-owners

## Who they are

A clever, comic enslaved man on the Shelby plantation who aids Eliza's escape.

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