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Easily the most controversial antislavery novel written in antebellum America, and one of the best-selling books of the nineteenth century, Uncle Tom’s Cabin is often credited with intensifying the sectional conflict that led to the Civil War. In his introduction, David Bromwich places Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel in its Victorian contexts and reminds us why it is an enduring work of literary and moral imagination. The John Harvard Library text follows the first American edition, published by John P. Jewett & Company.

Uncle Tom's Cabin brought the evils of slavery to the consciences and hearts of the American people by its moving portrayal of slave experience. Harriet Beecher Stowe shows us in scenes of great dramatic power the human effects of an economic system in which slaves were property: the break up of families, the struggles for freedom, the horrors of plantation labor. She brings into fiction the different voices of the emerging American nation, the Southern slave-owning classes, Northern abolitionists, children, the sorrow songs and dialect of slaves, as well the language of political debate and religious zeal. The novel was, and is, controversial, abrasive in its demand for change, yet also brilliant in the deployment of dialogue, with great comic skill and a power of pathos that made it a runaway bestseller in its time that continues to move us today.

Harriet Beecher Stowe was born in Litchfield, Connecticut, in 1811, the seventh child of a well-known Congregational minister, Lyman Beecher. The family moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, where she met and married Calvin Stowe, a professor of Theology in 1836. Living just across the river Ohio from the slaveholding state of Kentucky and becoming aware of the plight of escaping slaves led her to write Uncle Tom's Cabin, published in book form in 1852. She wrote the novel amid the difficulties of bringing up a family of six children. The runaway success of Uncle Tom's Cabin made its author a well-known public figure. Stowe died in 1896.

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These two publications demonstrate continuing interest in the life and work of Harriet Beecher Stowe. Harvard University's attractive, sturdy, and reasonably priced paperback of Uncle Tom's Cabin provides a brief introduction by David Bromwich (English, Yale) and a short chronology of Stowe's life. The novel was reprinted in various editions in England in 1852 owing to the lack of international copyright agreements at the time; this version follows the first American edition. Belasco's (English, women's & gender studies, Univ. of Nebraska, Lincoln) study of Stowe is an interesting mixture of 38 letters, diaries, and other writings regarding impressions and interactions with Stowe by her family members and contemporaries, as well as a few selections by Stowe. Belasco's knowledge comes across through her substantial introduction and thoughtful editing-each entry is prefaced by an informative paragraph that supplies helpful context and gives details on the author's relationship to Stowe. Writings by several notable figures are included, such as Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and Mark Twain. A complex portrait of Stowe, who has been a controversial figure at times, emerges. Belasco's work is recommended for academic and public libraries with American literature collections. Libraries in need of a replacement copy of Uncle Tom's Cabin should consider picking up the new Harvard edition.

This unforgettable novel tells the story of Tom, a devoutly Christian slave who chooses not to escape bondage for fear of embarrassing his master. However, he is soon sold to a slave trader and sent down the Mississippi, where he must endure brutal treatment. This is a powerful tale of the extreme cruelties of slavery, as well as the price of loyalty and morality. When first published, it helped to solidify the anti-slavery sentiments of the North, and it remains today as the book that helped move a nation to civil war. "So this is the little lady who made this big war." Abraham Lincoln's legendary comment upon meeting Mrs. Stowe has been seriously questioned, but few will deny that this work fed the passions and prejudices of countless numbers. If it did not "make" the Civil War, it flamed the embers. That Uncle Tom's Cabin is far more than an outdated work of propaganda confounds literary criticism. The novel's overwhelming power and persuasion have outlived even the most severe of critics. As Professor John William Ward of Amherst College points out in his incisive Afterword, the dilemma posed by Mrs. Stowe is no less relevant today than it was in 1852: What is it to be "a moral human being"? Can such a person live in society -- any society? Commenting on the timeless significance of the book, Professor Ward writes: "Uncle Tom's Cabin is about slavery, but it is about slavery because the fatal weakness of the slave's condition is the extreme manifestation of the sickness of the general society, a society breaking up into discrete, atomistic individuals where human beings, white or black, can find no secure relation one with another. Mrs. Stowe was more radical than even those in the South who hated her could see. Uncle Tom's Cabin suggests no less than the simple and terrible possibility that society has no place in it for love." - Back cover. Cover 1 Copyright 5 Contents 6 Note on the Text 28 Introduction by David Bromwich 10 Chronology of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Life 30 Uncle Tom's Cabin or, Life Among the Lowly 34 Preface 36 I. In Which the Reader Is Introduced to a Man of Humanity 40 II. The Mother 53 III. The Husband and Father 58 IV. An Evening in Uncle Tom’s Cabin 65 V. Showing the Feelings of Living Property on Changing Owners 80 VI. Discovery 91 VII. The Mother’s Struggle 103 VIII. Eliza’s Escape 120 IX. In Which It Appears That a Senator Is But a Man 139 X. The Property Is Carried Off 159 XI. In Which Property Gets into an Improper State of Mind 172 XII. Select Incident of Lawful Trade 189 XIII. The Quaker Settlement 210 XIV. Evangeline 222 XV. Of Tom’s New Master, and Various Other Matters 235 XVI. Tom’s Mistress and Her Opinions 255 XVII. The Freeman’s Defence 279 XVIII. Miss Ophelia’s Experiences and Opinions 300 XIX. Miss Ophelia’s Experiences and Opinions, Continued 320 XX. Topsy 344 XXI. Kentuck 363 XXII. "The Grass Withereth—The Flower Fadeth" 370 XXIII. Henrique 380 XXIV. Foreshadowings 390 XXV. The Little Evangelist 398 XXVI. Death 405 XXVII. "This Is the Last of Earth" 422 XXVIII. Reunion 432 XXIX. The Unprotected 451 XXX. The Slave Warehouse 461 XXXI. The Middle Passage 474 XXXII. Dark Places 482 XXXIII. Cassy 493 XXXIV. The Quadroon’s Story 503 XXXV. The Tokens 516 XXXVI. Emmeline and Cassy 524 XXXVII. Liberty 533 XXXVIII. The Victory 541 XXXIX. The Stratagem 554 XL. The Martyr 567 XLI. The Young Master 576 XLII. An Authentic Ghost Story 584 XLIII. Results 593 XLIV. The Liberator 603 XLV. Concluding Remarks 608 Selected Bibliography 620 0674034074,9780674034075,0140390030,9780140390032,0451530802,9780451530806 Belknap Press of Harvard University Press Harriet Beecher Stowe's timeless and moving novel, an incendiary work that fanned the embers of the struggle between free and slave states into the fire of the Civil War. Uncle Tom's Cabin is the story of the slave Tom. Devout and loyal, he is sold and sent down south, where he endures brutal treatment at the hands of the degenerate plantation owner Simon Legree. By exposing the extreme cruelties of slavery, Stowe explores society's failures and asks a profound question: “What is it to be a moral human being?” And as the novel that helped to move a nation to battle, Uncle Tom's Cabin is an essential part of the collective experience of the American people. With an Introduction by Darryl Pinckney and an Afterword by Jonathan Arac "Uncle Tom's Cabin" is the story of the slave Tom. He is sold and sent south, where he endures brutal treatment at the hands of a degenerate plantation owner. As the novel that helped to move a nation to battle, "Uncle Tom's Cabin" is an essential part of the collective experience of the American people A Saintly Black Man Endures The Depredations Of Slavery And The Torments Of A Cruel Overseer. Harriet Beecher Stowe ; Edited With An Introduction By Ann Douglas. Originally Published: New York : Penguin, 1981., In The Penguin American Library. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 35-36). Perhaps the most powerful document in the history of American abolitionism, this controversial novel goaded thousands of readers to take a stand on the issue of slavery and played a major political and social role in the Civil War period. The moving abolitionist novel that fueled the fire of the human rights debate in 1852 and melodramatically condemned the institution of slavery through such powerfully realized characters as Tom, Eliza, Topsy, Eva, and Simon Legree 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 In the classic 1852 novel that brought the abolitionists' message to the public, a devoutly Christian slave becomes separated from his wife and family when he is sold to the brutal planter Simon Legree