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Uncle Tom's Cabin - A Landmark Novel of Slavery, Faith, and the Struggle for Freedom
Hardcover
Classic FictionHistorical Fiction
ISBN13: 9781515429289
Publisher: SMK Books
Published: Apr 3 2018
Pages: 430
Weight: 1.76
Height: 1.13 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Uncle Tom's Cabin is Harriet Beecher Stowe's influential anti-slavery novel that shaped public debate in the years preceding the American Civil War.
Through the intertwined stories of enslaved individuals and the families who buy, sell, or shelter them, Stowe presents a moral indictment of the institution of slavery. The novel follows Uncle Tom, Eliza Harris, George Harris, and others as they endure separation, flight, cruelty, and sacrifice. Stowe combines sentiment, religious conviction, and social realism to dramatize the human cost of a legal system built on bondage.
Serialized before appearing in book form, the novel quickly became one of the best-selling works of the nineteenth century. Its portrayal of Christian conscience in conflict with national law helped galvanize abolitionist sentiment in the United States and abroad. Though debated and reinterpreted over time, the work remains central to the study of American literature and the cultural history of slavery.
This SMK Books edition presents the complete, unabridged 1852 text.
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