Uncle Tom's Cabin Or, Life Among The Lowly - Hardcover
When it was published in 1852, Uncle Tom's Cabin was revolutionary for its passionate anti-slavery stance and for its portrayal of Tom, the first black hero in American fiction. Today it remains a shocking, controversial, and powerful work, documenting in heartrending detail the tragic breakup of black Kentucky families "sold down the river."
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Uncle Tom, Topsy, Sambo, Simon Legree, little Eva: their names are American bywords, and all of them are characters in Harriet Beecher Stowe's remarkable novel of the pre-Civil War South. Uncle Tom's Cabin was revolutionary in 1852 for its passionate indictment of slavery and for its presentation of Tom, "a man of humanity," as the first black hero in American fiction. Labeled racist and condescending by some contemporary critics, it remains a shocking, controversial, and powerful work -- exposing the attitudes of white nineteenth-century society toward "the peculiar institution" and documenting, in heartrending detail, the tragic breakup of black Kentucky families "sold down the river." An immediate international sensation, Uncle Tom's Cabin sold 300,000 copies in the first year, was translated into thirty-seven languages, and has never gone out of print: its political impact was immense, its emotional influence immeasurable.
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- PublisherThorndike Press
- Publication date2005
- ISBN 10 0786276843
- ISBN 13 9780786276844
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages840
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