Dante's Inferno & Uncle Tom's Cabin

For those of you who have been following this,
you know I've been into Harriet Beecher Stowe and uncle tom's cabin for a while.
I've read the book twice and am finishing my 4th book of essays on the subject as well as the author.

I had the strange idea that the plot was very similar to several classics.
it predates two of them, and was written after the third.

The first, is Frank Baum's 1900 classic, The Wizard of Oz.
It's not a stretch to liken Alice's flight from oppression and search for a wizard to bring her back home to George, Eliza and Uncle Tom's flight towards their own forms of utopia.
Along the way, there are numerous cowardly lions, tin men and scarecrows, as well as the silent lurking pursuer of racism and devilish intent.

The second novel, is the 1865 take, by Charles Dodgson, Alice In Wonderland.
Somehow blacks fell into the rabbit hole, which represents the middle passage.
They emerge into a world that is both wondrous and also bizarrely askew.
Nothing seems possible, or real.
Characters are capricious, disconnected, unfeeling and baffling in their logic and justification for the world they live in, and the lives that they lead.
In the end, tom and Eva awaken in heaven, while George, Jim and Eliza find a very real, and free reality.

The final classic, was written around 1306, and this one is Dante's inferno.
Dante's journey through the levels of hell, represent both George and Eliza's flight north,
and Uncle Tom's descent south.
Virgil in this case is represented by Christ for Tom, and the Quakers for George, Jim and Eliza.

Uncle Tom's Cabin was published first in 1852 as a serialized novel in an abolitionist newspaper, The New Era.

In reading one of the essays in one of the four books I've recently read, another author also likened the tale to Dante's Inferno.
Thus, this blog.
So perhaps my idea is not quite the leap of imagination it seemed at first.
It's hard to not think of other stories that combine the unreal, the surreal, and bizarre with a journey along a precipitous path along the razors edge of good or the sane, an evil or insanity.