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 …
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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 That Uncle Tom's Cabin is far more than an outdated work of propaganda confounds literary criticism.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.
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- LibraryThing key:
- 18362
- BNF ID:
- 120080111
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
Paperback
Published March 1, 1968 by Signet Classics.
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Khizhina di͡a︡di Toma
256 pages
Russian language
Published Aug. 6, 1887 by Tip. A.A. Kart͡s︡eva.
Caban f'ewythr Tom.
117 pages
Welsh language
Published Aug. 6, 1931
Tom avgyn ovookhoĭ
230 pages
Mongolian language
Published Aug. 6, 1962 by Ulsyn Khėvlėliĭn Khėrėg Ėrkhlėkh Khoroo.
Uncle Tom's Cabin
English language
Published by Easton Press.
Khizhina di︠a︡di Toma
556 pages
Russian language
Published Aug. 6, 1980 by Detskai︠a︡ literatura.
Chata wuja Tomasza
Polish language
Published 1922
A cabana do Pai Thomé
Portuguese language
Published 1853 by Tipografia Universal.
De negerhut
Dutch language
Published 1925 by J.M. Bredée's Boekhandel en Uitgevers-maatschappij.
টমকাকার কুটীর
Bangla language
Published 1913
Een kijkje in de hut van oom Tom
Dutch language
Published 1953
La case de l'Oncle Tom
French language
Published 1878 by Charpentier.
দদাইৰ পজা
Assamese language
Published 1930
Tómas frændi
Icelandic language
Published 1901
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