In Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Mrs. Stowe describes respectable scenes of slave mothers and children. She thinks mothers and children have the deepest love, so separation would be cruel to both of them. The relationship between Eliza and her boy embodies the author’s concept of kinship. In the novel, the author creates Eliza as a typical slave mother who raises her son Harry by herself. And Eliza is happier than ever before, because of Harry. She and her husband George don’t live together, because they belong to different slaveholders. Thus, they have little time together. Because of that, in Harry’s world, his mother is everything. Mother makes him delicious food, comforts him to sleep, and protects him. Eliza helps her son run away from the slave trade as soon as she knows the truth that Mr. Shelby is going to sell Harry to make up his debts, even if her slaveholders treat them well. Here is a scene in the novel about how Eliza pacifies her son, and prepares package for the escape:

Poor boy! Poor fellow!” said Eliza; “they have sold you! But your mother will save you yet!” ……“mustn’t speak loud, or they will hear us. A wicked man was coming to take little Harry away from his mother, and carry him way off in the dark; but mother won’t let him—she’s going to put on her little boy’s cap and coat, and run off with him, so the ugly man can't catch him. (Stowe, 2011: 39-40)