Uncle Tom's Cabin: or, Life among the LowlyWhen Uncle Tom's Cabin was published in 1852, it became an international blockbuster, selling more than 300,000 copies in the United States alone in its first year. Progressive for her time, Harriet Beecher Stowe was one of the earliest writers to offer a shockingly realistic depiction of slavery. Her stirring indictment and portrait of human dignity in the most inhumane circumstances enlightened hundreds of thousands by revealing the human costs of slavery, which had until then been cloaked and justified by the racist misperceptions of the time. Langston Hughes called it "a moral battle cry," noting that "the love and warmth and humanity that went into its writing keep it alive a century later," and Tolstoy described it as "flowing from love of God and man." |
Contents
Introduction by Jane Smiley | 3 |
An Evening in Uncle Toms Cabin | 29 |
Showing the Feelings of Living | 46 |
Discovery | 58 |
The Mothers Struggle | 71 |
Elizas Escape | 89 |
In Which It Appears That a Senator | 111 |
The Property Is Carried | 134 |
Death | 403 |
This Is the Last of Earth | 422 |
Reunion | 433 |
The Unprotected | 453 |
The Slave Warehouse | 464 |
The Middle Passage | 479 |
Dark Places | 488 |
Cassy | 500 |
In Which Property Gets into | 148 |
Select Incident of Lawful Trade | 167 |
The Quaker Settlement | 191 |
Evangeline | 204 |
Of Toms New Master and Various Other Matters | 218 |
Toms Mistress and Her Opinions | 240 |
The Free Mans Defence | 266 |
Miss Ophelias Experiences and Opinions | 289 |
Miss Ophelias Experiences and Opinions Continued | 311 |
Topsy | 338 |
Kentuck | 359 |
The Grass Withereth The Flowers Fadeth | 366 |
Henrique | 376 |
Foreshadowings | 387 |
The Little Evangelist | 396 |
The Quadroons Story | 510 |
The Tokens | 525 |
Emmeline and Cassy | 534 |
Liberty | 543 |
The Victory | 552 |
The Stratagem | 566 |
The Martyr | 580 |
The Young Master | 590 |
An Authentic Ghost Story | 599 |
Results | 608 |
The Liberator | 619 |
Concluding Remarks | 625 |
Commentary | 639 |
Reading Group Guide | 661 |
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