# Tom Loker — Uncle Tom’s Cabin character guide

> Tom Loker in Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Loker

**First appearance:** 0010-volume-i-xi-in-which-property-gets-into-an-improper-state-of-mind

## Snapshot

A brutal slave catcher whose trade is hunting human beings, he is forced to reckon with the cost of his profession after violence turns against him.

## Who they are

Loker works the roads and rivers for men like Haley, tracking fugitives for cash and treating the enslaved as cargo. Coarse, profane, and quick with his fists, he embodies the enforcement arm of the slave economy. His encounters with the escaping Harrises and the Quakers who tend him push the novel to ask whether even a hardened hunter can be changed by mercy.

## In the story

### [Eliza's Escape](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/uncle_tom_s_cabin_se/chapters/volume-i-viii-eliza-s-escape)

A brutal slave catcher who agrees to help Haley recapture Eliza and Harry.

### [Liberty](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/uncle_tom_s_cabin_se/chapters/volume-ii-xxxvii-liberty)

Tom Loker is recovering from his injuries under the care of Aunt Dorcas. He reveals information about the pursuit and later reforms, becoming a trapper.

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