Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. Published in 1852, the novel had a profound effect on attitudes toward African Americans and slavery in the U.S. and is said to have "helped lay the groundwork for the Civil War"
The Little Story that Started the Civil War “Any mind that is capable of a real sorrow is capable of good.” ― Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin Uncle Tom's Cabin; or Life Among the Lowly, is one of the most famous anti-slavery ...
See John MacKay, True Songs of Freedom: “Uncle Tom's Cabin” in Russian Culture and Society (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2013). 52. Mary Louise Pratt, “Arts of the Contact Zone,” Profession, 1991, 37. 53.
Published in two volumes in 1852, the novel had a profound effect on attitudes toward African Americans and slavery in the U.S., and is said to have "helped lay the groundwork for the [American] Civil War."
Victor Fleming's 1939 film has, of course, also become a Russian favorite. 5. ... Sovetskaia Entsiklopediia, 1991), 1:3-10; and E. Stetsenko, "Margaret Mitchell i ee roman Unesennye vetrom," in Mitchell, Unesennye vetrom, trans.
Its historical impact was so great that it spawned the mythical story that Abraham Lincoln, upon meeting Stowe near the start of the Civil War, was heard to say, ""So this is the little lady who started this great war.""
An overview of the novel features a biographical sketch of the author, a list of characters, a summary of the plot, and critical and analytical views of the work.
This Broadview edition is based upon the first American edition of the novel and reprints its original illustrations and preface.
A saintly Black man endures the depredations of slavery and the torments of a cruel overseer
Harriet Beecher Stowe. occasionally stopped and looked at her. "Takes it hard, rather," he soliloquized, "but quiet, tho'; —let her sweat a while; she'll come right, by and by!" Tom had watched the whole transaction from first to last, ...
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