Uncle Tom's Cabin

by Stowe, Harriet Beecher

• ISBN13: 9780486440286
• ISBN10: 0486440281
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-08-01
• Publisher: Dover Publications

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

Preface	1	(2)
In Which the Reader Is Introduced to a Man of Humanity	3	(8)
The Mother	11	(3)
The Husband and Father	14	(4)
An Evening in Uncle Tom's Cabin	18	(10)
Showing the Feelings of Living Property on Changing Owners	28	(7)
Discovery	35	(7)
The Mother's Struggle	42	(11)
Eliza's Escape	53	(13)
In Which It Appears That a Senator Is but a Man	66	(14)
The Property Is Carried Off	80	(8)
In Which Property Gets into an Improper State of Mind	88	(11)
Select Incident of Lawful Trade	99	(14)
The Quaker Settlement	113	(8)
Evangeline	121	(8)
Of Tom's New Master, and Various Other Matters	129	(13)
Tom's Mistress and Her Opinions	142	(16)
The Freeman's Defence	158	(14)
Miss Ophelia's Experiences and Opinions	172	(13)
Miss Ophelia's Experiences and Opinions, Continued	185	(17)
Topsy	202	(12)
Kentuck	214	(4)
``The Grass Withereth---The Flower Fadeth''	218	(6)
Henrique	224	(7)
Foreshadowings	231	(5)
The Little Evangelist	236	(4)
Death	240	(11)
``This Is the Last of Earth''	251	(7)
Reunion	258	(12)
The Unprotected	270	(6)
The Slave Warehouse	276	(9)
The Middle Passage	285	(5)
Dark Places	290	(7)
Cassy	297	(6)
The Quadroon's Story	303	(9)
The Tokens	312	(5)
Emmeline and Cassy	317	(6)
Liberty	323	(5)
The Victory	328	(9)
The Stratagem	337	(8)
The Martyr	345	(6)
The Young Master	351	(5)
An Authentic Ghost Story	356	(5)
Results	361	(7)
The Liberator	368	(3)
Concluding Remarks	371