Both Harriet Beecher Stowe and Mark Twain use black male characters, Uncle Tom and Jim, to write stories about race/class, the national identity/disidentity, and relations between “blacks” and “whites.” The relationships between Uncle Tom and a variety of whites and Jim and Huck model the mutual construction of white and black as well as possibilities of “national” identity. Write a short essay comparing Harriet Beecher Stowe’s representation of Uncle Tom with Mark Twain’s representation of Jim.