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Feb 05, 2008 | ISBN 9780451530806 Buy *This format is not eligible to earn points towards the Reader Rewards program
Jan 01, 1998 | ISBN 9781101212974 Buy
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Feb 05, 2008 | ISBN 9780451530806
Jan 01, 1998 | ISBN 9781101212974
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
Harriet Beecher Stowe, a prolific writer best remembered today for Uncle Tom’s Cabin, was born in Litchfield, Connecticut, on June 14, 1811, into a prominent New England family. First serialized in The National Era, an abolitionist paper, in 40 weekly installments between June 5, 1851,… More about Harriet Beecher Stowe
“Uncle Tom’s Cabin is the most powerful and enduring work of art ever written about American slavery.”—Alfred Kazin
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