Uncle Tom’s Cabin · Character

Simeon Halliday

A gentle Quaker patriarch whose calm, deliberate faith shelters Eliza and George even as slave-catchers close in on his home.

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Also known as old Simeon Halliday, Simeon

First appearance: The Quaker Settlement

As a supporting figure in Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Simeon Halliday is not background color—the story leans on what they do once the chapter opens.

Rachel's husband, who brings news that George Harris is in the settlement and will arrive that night.

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Simeon presides over the Halliday farm, a station on the underground road where fugitives are fed, hidden, and counseled as friends rather than cases. When Phineas brings word that armed men are tracking the party, Simeon's quiet 'I pray it come not to that' reveals the tension between his peace testimony and the violence shadowing his guests. His steadying presence anchors the novel's vision of Christian conscience in action, a counterweight to the legalized cruelty closing around Eliza and George.

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Quaker and abolitionist helpers
Shelby and Quaker minor characters
Diverse minor characters and slave traders
St. Clare household maids and Topsy
Legree's plantation victims and helpers

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