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Harry: Harry is the first slave introduced to the readers in Uncle Tom’s Cabin. He is about four or five years old, because of his beauty, he is treated like a favored pet. He is described of being a quadroon, a mixed race, black and white and referred to as quadroon. His parents are Eliza and George who live on separate plantations. He is initially the driving force of the plot action in the novel, since his master Mr. Shelby has to settle a debt that he owes to slave trader Mr. Haley, or risk losing his entire plantations and all his slaves. His mother Eliza decides to run away before allowing her son to be sold. So at a tender young age, Harry becomes a fugitive slave. Harry ends up to his final liberty in Liberia¸ and becomes educated.