Cover of Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe Ebook Uncle Tom's Cabin
Ebook · Sovereign

Uncle Tom's Cabin

Author
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Series
African Library
Language
English
Length
458 pages
ISBN
9781909904453
Published
15 October 2013
Imprint
Sovereign
  • Uncle Tom’s Cabin
  • Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • social justice
  • slavery
  • history
  • education
  • social class
  • social order
  • historical
  • abolition

Description

"Uncle Tom's Cabin" is a powerful novel that explores the horrors of slavery and the human toll of the institution. The story follows the lives of several enslaved individuals, including the protagonist Uncle Tom, who is sold away from his wife and children and forced to serve a series of brutal owners. The novel also focuses on the lives of several abolitionists, including the kind-hearted and courageous Eliza Harris, who flees with her young son across the frozen Ohio River to escape slavery. Through their stories, Stowe examines the brutality of the slave trade, the dehumanizing effects of slavery on both the enslaved and their owners, and the moral imperative of ending the institution.

Author

Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811–1896) wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin and forced a country to look at what it had agreed not to see. A Beecher from New England, she used the domestic novel — kitchens, children, deathbeds — as a political instrument. Sentiment is the method; freedom is the stake. The book sold like a tract and argued like a sermon; it was praised, banned, staged, and stolen from. Two other titles sit beside it here.