Notes On Uncle Tom's Cabin: Being A Logical Answer to its Allegations and Inferences against Slavery as an Institution. With a Supplementary Note on the Key, and an Appendix of Authorities

Second edition. vi, 314, 15-36 (ads) pp. Publisher's blindstamped read cloth with spine titled in gilt. Large, older (but likely not contemporary) Brooklyn bookstore stamp on front fly. Binding worn and soiled with loss at the spine ends, endleaves foxed and some very occasional modest foxing in the text, margins toned, and a very small foredge stain affecting the foredge margins only a trifling bit, a sound, good only copy. The author's attempt to refute Harriet Beecher Stowe's *Uncle Tom's Cabin*, with chapters titled "Inconsistencies and Improbabilities of the Story" and "Irreligious Tendency of the Work," along with more general chapter headings dealing with the slave trade, conditions in Africa, religion, etc. The author, thoroughly salty over the publication and success of *Uncle Tom's Cabin*, writes that while he has "throughout endeavoured to treat [Stowe] with the respect due to a woman, I have occasionally found it hard work. ." According to him, Stowe's book "stirred up more bad bile in twelve months, than can be settled in as many years." The author was formerly a professor at St. John's College, Maryland. Ignorant; relatively uncommon.…