Uncle Tom's Cabin Nce 2E Pa

by Stowe,Harriet Beecher

• ISBN13: 9780393933994
• ISBN10: 0393933997
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-02-10
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Summary

In the nineteenth century, Uncle Tom's Cabin sold more copies than any book in the world except the Bible. Upon publication, it was quickly translated into thirty-seven languages and has never gone out of print. It remains a controversial and complex text that, along with David Walker's Appeal , Henry David Thoreau's Walden , W. E. B. DuBois's The Souls of Black Folk , and Helena María Viramontes' Under the Feet of Jesus , among others, stands out as an important text in the progressive struggle for social justice in the United States. This Second Edition is based on the original 1852 book edition, published in two volumes by John P. Jewett and Company, Boston, and includes all original illustrations. The text is accompanied by a preface and detailed explanatory annotations to assist the reader with obscure historical terms and biblical allusions. 'œBackgrounds and Contexts' includes a wealth of historical documents addressing the issues of slavery and abolitionism. New visuals in the Second Edition include a selection of abolition posters and records of torture. Also newly included is J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur's eyewitness account of slavery as a visitor to the United States, a selection from David Walker's Appeal , and Henrietta King's autobiographical account of the horror of slavery. 'œCriticism' presents a balanced view of the ongoing controversy over Uncle Tom's Cabin in fifteen reviews and scholarly interpretations spanning more than 150 years of writing about the novel. Paul Laurence Dunbar, Jane P. Tompkins, and Susan M. Ryan, among others, admire Uncle Tom's Cabin for its social vision and artistry, while James Baldwin and Sophia Cantave, among others, argue that the book's racism continues to promote misperceptions and that its prominence does ongoing damage. A Chronology of Stowe's life and work, a Brief Timeline of Slavery in America, and an updated Selected Bibliography are also included.

Table of Contents

Preface

A Note on the Text

Acknowledgments

The Text of Uncle Tom's Cabin

First-edition title page

Preface

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations

Uncle Tom's Cabin

Backgrounds and Contexts

Map: The Eastern United States in the Antebellum Period

Slave Sale Announcements

Escaped Slave Advertisements

Abolition Posters

Visual Records of Torture

J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur • [A Visitor's Description of Slavery's Atrocity]

David Walker • [from Appeal, In Four Articles]

Josiah Henson • Life of Josiah Henson

Solomon Northup • A Slave Auction Described by a Slave, 1841

Henrietta King • [A Freeperson's Memory of Slavery's Horror]

Harriet Jacobs • The Trials of Girlhood

William Wells Brown • Another Kidnapping, 1844

• The Flight of Ellen and William Craft, 1849

Harriet Beecher Stowe • Letter to the Abolitionist Eliza Cabot Follen

• From A Key to "Uncle Tom's Cabin"

Uncle Tom

The Execution of Justice

• Appeal to the Women of the Free States

Martin Delany • from Blake; or, The Huts of America

George M. Frederickson • Uncle Tom and the Anglo-Saxons: Romantic Racialism in the North

George Cruikshank • Illustration: Tom reading his Bible

• Illustration: The poor bleeding heart

• Illustration: Emmeline about to be sold to the highest bidder

Thomas F. Gosset • Anti-Uncle Tom Literature

Mary C. Henderson • [Tom Shows]

Tom-Show Poster

Criticism

Nineteenth-Century Reviews and Reception

George Sand • Review of Uncle Tom's Cabin

William G. Allen • [About Uncle Tom's Cabin]

Ethiop • Review of Uncle Tom's Cabin

George F. Holmes • Review of Uncle Tom's Cabin

Anonymous • Review of Uncle Tom's Cabin

Charles Dudley Warner • [Uncle Tom's Cabin a Half Century Later]

Frances Ellen Watkins [Harper] • Eliza Harris

Helen Gray Cone • [Harriet Beecher Stowe and American Women Writers]

Paul Laurence Dunbar • Harriet Beecher Stowe

G. Grant Williams • Reminiscence of the Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe and Her Family

Modern Critical Views

James Baldwin • Everybody's Protest Novel

Jane P. Tompkins • Sentimental Power: Uncle Tom's Cabin and the Politics of Literary History

Robert S. Levine • Uncle Tom's Cabin in Frederick Douglass' Paper: An Analysis of Reception

Sophia Cantave • Who Gets to Create the Lasting Images? The Problem of Black Representation in Uncle Tom's Cabin

Susan M. Ryan • Charity Begins at Home: Stowe's Antislavery Novels and the Forms of Benevolent Citizenship

Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Chronology

A Brief Timeline of Slavery in America

Selected Bibliography

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