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Written by American author and dedicated abolitionist Harriet Beecher Stowe, "Uncle Toms Cabin" is a poignant novel which shows the harsh reality of a slaves life in the 1800s. Uncle Tom, an African-American slave who believes in the power of Christian faith. The book would be a major contributor to the Civil War because its compelling portrayal of slaves as fellow human beings left little room for compromise: if slaves were indeed...

Story of Harriet Beecher Stowe, who opposed slavery so passionately, that she decided to write novels about it, and became the most famous of a renowned family.

"Up to this year I have always felt that I had no particular call to meddle with this subject.... But I feel now that the time is come when even a woman or a child who can speak a word for freedom and humanity is bound to speak." Thus did Harriet Beecher Stowe announce her decision to begin work on what would become one of the most influential novels ever written. The subject she had hesitated to "meddle with" was slavery, and the novel, of course,...

When Harriet Beecher marries Calvin Stowe on January 6, 1836, she is sure her future will be filled romance, eventually a family, and continued opportunities to develop as a writer. Her husband Calvin is completely supportive and said she must be a literary woman. Harriet's sister, Catharine, worries she will lose her identity in marriage, but she is determined to preserve her independent spirit. Deeply religious, she strongly believes God has called...

Uncle Tom charts the dramatic cultural transformation of perhaps the most controversial literary character in American history. From his origins as the heroic, Christ-like protagonist of Harriet Beecher Stowe's anti-slavery novel, the best-selling book of the nineteenth century after the Bible, Uncle Tom has become a widely recognized epithet for a black person deemed so subservient to whites that he betrays his race. Readers have long noted that...

Traces the family of nineteenth-century author Harriet Beecher Stowe to the frontier town of Cincinnati where the influx of escaping slaves across the Kentucky border led her to write her classic novel, "Uncle Tom's Cabin."

Examines the life of the nineteenth-century author famous for the novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin," which denounced slavery and intensified the disagreement between the North and South.

This edition includes:The 1852 first book edition, accompanied by a preface, note on the text, and explanatory annotations.Twenty-two illustrations and historical documents on slavery and abolitionism are included, as are seventeen critical reviews spanning more than 160 years.

A biography of the nineteenth-century author famous for the novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin" which denounced slavery and intensified the disagreement between the North and South.