In "Uncle Tom's Cabin", St. Clare, Tom's master, is killed; Tom is then sold to this brutal, drunken planter
... St. Clare 
agrees to free his slaves upon his daughter's death, but then dies before ... Mr. 
Shelby is a considerate master, but he must sell Tom to Haley, the slave trader, 
..... At a public auction, Tom is sold to a brutal plantation owner named Simon 
Legree.