Uncle Tom's Cabin - Hardcover

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 190463348X ISBN 13: 9781904633488

Publisher: Macmillan Collector's Library, 2004

Synopsis

This book charts the paths from slavery to freedom of fugitives who escape the chains of American chattel slavery and of a martyr who transcends all earthly ties, and locates the issues of race and the role of women.

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Library of Liberal Arts title.

From the Inside Flap

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.
From the Paperback edition.

About this edition

• Publisher: Macmillan Collector's Library
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 190463348X
• ISBN 13: 9781904633488
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 644