Uncle Tom's Cabin

by Goodman, Evelyn; Karbiener, Karen; Stowe, Harriet Beecher; Livingstone, R.

• ISBN13: 9781578400607
• ISBN10: 1578400600
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-06-01
• Publisher: Acclaim Books

Summary

When 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."

Author Biography

Charles Johnson is Pollock Chair in Humanities at the University of Washington. One of the most admired American writers of recent decades, he is the author of four novels [including Middle Passage, which won the National Book Award], numerous short stories, and more than twenty screenplays

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. VII
Chronology of Harriet Beecher Stowe's Life and Work	p. XV
Historical Context of Uncle Tom's Cabin	p. XVII
Uncle Tom's Cabin	p. 1
Notes	p. 549
Interpretive Notes	p. 567
Critical Excerpts	p. 575
Questions for Discussion	p. 584
Suggestions for the Interested Reader	p. 586
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