Baldwin's views on Uncle Tom's Cabin

I think Baldwin’s points about the book hiding racism behind sentimentality, has some truth to it. The book has some examples of racism but I think they go past a point that makes them being brought up in manner that makes them seem normal which in kind is racist. An example of this is the quote ““O yes!—a machine for saving work, is it? He’d invent that, I’ll be bound; let a nigger alone for that, any time. They are all labor-saving themselves, every one of ‘em. No, he shall tramp!””(page 11). This is being said about George from his master saying that he is offended that a person of color could potentially be smarter than him. I would say that Baldwin would look at this and say that Harriet Beecher Stowe is showing not only the blatant racist views of some plantation owners but some racist views of her own. I say this because after this quote she goes on to write that was powerless to intervene against a “power that he knew was irresistible”, showing that she believes that all blacks have no hope to ever be equals to whites. This is sentimental because everybody in their lives has at one point been told they can’t do something by a power that they couldn’t get past.  She was making a point about people being racist but at the same time was showing an implicit for racism herself in the eyes of Baldwin.