586 pages

English language

Published Dec. 26, 2004 by Pockt Books.

ISBN:
978-0-7434-8766-5
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OCLC Number:
55029284

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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 Warm, it flamed the embers. That Uncle Tom's Cabin is far more than …

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Subjects

  • Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896
  • Slavery -- United States -- Fiction
  • Plantation life -- Southern States -- Fiction
  • African Americans -- Southern States -- Fiction