In the first year after it was published, 300,000 copies of the book were sold in the United States; one million copies in Great Britain. In 1855, three years after it was published, it was called "the most popular novel of our day.
A saintly Black man endures the depredations of slavery and the torments of a cruel overseer
This edition includes:The 1852 first book edition, accompanied by a preface, note on the text, and explanatory annotations.
In the first year after it was published, 300,000 copies of the book were sold in the United States; one million copies in Great Britain. In 1855, three years after it was published, it was called "the most popular novel of our day.
" Reactions to the novel Uncle Tom's Cabin has exerted an influence equaled by few other novels in history.
A slave, whose child is to be sold, escapes her beloved home on the Shelby plantation in Kentucky and heads north, eluding the hired slave catchers.
Uncle Tom's Cabin: Or, Life Among the Lowly
Often credited with indirectly causing the outbreak of the Civil War, "Uncle Tom's Cabin" is a portrait of human dignity in the most inhumane circumstances and an indictment of racist misperceptions in what Langston Hughes called "a moral ...
The story of American slavery and Uncle Tom, an African-American man who never lost his dignity under the most inhumane circumstances.
Retells the classic story of a saintly Black man who must endure the depredations of slavery and the torment of a cruel overseer, as a graphic novel with study guide.
SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER READING ADAMS , JOHN R. Harriet Beecher Stowe . Boston : Twayne Publishers , 1989 . BLOOM , HAROLD . Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin . New York : Chelsea House Publishers , 1999 .
Uncle Tom's Cabin: Or, Life Among the Lowly
Discusses the circumstances that existed at the time Stowe wrote her famous novel, the details of the book, and its impact on feelings about the existence of slavery in the United States in the mid-nineteenth century.
Today, controversy over this melodramatic tale of the dignified slave Tom, the brutal plantation owner Simon Legree, and Stowe's other vividly drawn characters continues, as modern scholars debate the work's newly appreciated feminist ...
Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852) is a powerful condemnation of slavery.
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.""
The book that some say helped start a war--now available in a new package! The story of a slave struggling to maintain his dignity during the pre-Civil War era, Uncle Tom’s Cabin was published in 1852 to tremendous success.
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
The book contributed to the Civil War by showing that slaves were fellow human beings: if slaves were indeed human, then no justification for slavery was possible.
Whereas many modern critical editions have succumbed to the fads of modernism and post-modernism, this series will concentrate on tradition-oriented criticism of these great works.