A vicious and inhumane plantation owner in Georgia who purchases Tom and Eliza at a New Orleans auction. He subjects them to extreme cruelty forbids religious practices and violently interrogates Tom about escaped slaves. His reign of terror ends when he falls to his death from an attic window while attacking the women.
Their relationship embodies the plantation's coercive power structure.
Legree buys Tom at the New Orleans slave market, forbids him to pray or read the Bible, and orders him beaten.
Legree becomes the final owner threatening Eliza's safety.
Legree notices Eliza at the auction, buys her, and takes her to his plantation.
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