Uncle Tom's Cabin
By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Cover: Negro Life at the South (c. 1870 version), oil on canvas by Eastman Johnson (1824-1906) · Wikimedia Commons · Public domain (artist died 1906)
Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. Published in two volumes in 1852, the novel had a profound effect on attitudes toward African Americans and slavery in the U.S., and is said to have "helped lay the groundwork for the American Civil War". This book uses the racial and other slurs of its period as written; the Book Guide explains these words where they occur.
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Table of contents
- 1: In Which the Reader Is Introduced to a Man of Humanity
- 2: The Mother
- 3: The Husband and Father
- 4: An Evening in Uncle Tom’s Cabin
- 5: Showing the Feelings of Living Property on Changing Owners
- 6: Discovery
- 7: The Mother’s Struggle
- 8: Eliza’s Escape
- 9: In Which It Appears That a Senator Is But a Man
- 10: The Property Is Carried Off
- 11: In Which Property Gets into an Improper State of Mind
- 12: Select Incident of Lawful Trade
- 13: The Quaker Settlement
- 14: Evangeline
- 15: Of Tom’s New Master, and Various Other Matters
- 16: Tom’s Mistress and Her Opinions
- 17: The Freeman’s Defence
- 18: Miss Ophelia’s Experiences and Opinions
- 19: Miss Ophelia’s Experiences and Opinions Continued
- 20: Topsy
- 21: Kentuck
- 22: “The Grass Withereth—the Flower Fadeth”
- 23: Henrique
- 24: Foreshadowings
- 25: The Little Evangelist
- 26: Death
- 27: “This Is the Last of Earth”
- 28: Reunion
- 29: The Unprotected
- 30: The Slave Warehouse
- 31: The Middle Passage
- 32: Dark Places
- 33: Cassy
- 34: The Quadroon’s Story
- 35: The Tokens
- 36: Emmeline and Cassy
- 37: Liberty
- 38: The Victory
- 39: The Stratagem
- 40: The Martyr
- 41: The Young Master
- 42: An Authentic Ghost Story
- 43: Results
- 44: The Liberator
- 45: Concluding Remarks