Fiction · 1852
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel of slavery in Kentucky and Louisiana — the sale of Tom, the flight of Eliza across the ice, the death of Eva, the plantation of Simon Legree — was serialised in 1851–52 and published in two volumes in 1852. It sold three hundred thousand copies in the United States in its first year and was translated across Europe; no American novel before it had reached so many readers.
It was written to move its audience against the Fugitive Slave Act and did. It has also been argued over ever since, for its sentiment and for its stereotypes, which later readers, Black and white, have criticised sharply. Bibliomancer presents the text as written.
Contents
- Volume I
- Chapter I — In Which the Reader Is Introduced to a Man of Humanity
- Chapter II — The Mother
- Chapter III — The Husband and Father
- Chapter IV — An Evening in Uncle Tom’s Cabin
- Chapter V — Showing the Feelings of Living Property on Changing Owners
- Chapter VI — Discovery
- Chapter VII — The Mother’s Struggle
- Chapter VIII — Eliza’s Escape
- Chapter IX — In Which It Appears That a Senator Is but a Man
- Chapter X — The Property Is Carried Off
- Chapter XI — In Which Property Gets into an Improper State of Mind
- Chapter XII — Select Incident of Lawful Trade
- Chapter XIII — The Quaker Settlement
- Chapter XIV — Evangeline
- Chapter XV — Of Tom’s New Master, and Various Other Matters
- Chapter XVI — Tom’s Mistress and Her Opinions
- Chapter XVII — The Freeman’s Defence
- Chapter XVIII — Miss Ophelia’s Experiences and Opinions
- Volume II
- Chapter XIX — Miss Ophelia’s Experiences and Opinions Continued
- Chapter XX — Topsy
- Chapter XXI — Kentuck
- Chapter XXII — “The Grass Withereth—the Flower Fadeth”
- Chapter XXIII — Henrique
- Chapter XXIV — Foreshadowings
- Chapter XXV — The Little Evangelist
- Chapter XXVI — Death
- Chapter XXVII — “This Is the Last of Earth”
- Chapter XXVIII — Reunion
- Chapter XXIX — The Unprotected
- Chapter XXX — The Slave Warehouse
- Chapter XXXI — The Middle Passage
- Chapter XXXII — Dark Places
- Chapter XXXIII — Cassy
- Chapter XXXIV — The Quadroon’s Story
- Chapter XXXV — The Tokens
- Chapter XXXVI — Emmeline and Cassy
- Chapter XXXVII — Liberty
- Chapter XXXVIII — The Victory
- Chapter XXXIX — The Stratagem
- Chapter XL — The Martyr
- Chapter XLI — The Young Master
- Chapter XLII — An Authentic Ghost Story
- Chapter XLIII — Results
- Chapter XLIV — The Liberator
- Chapter XLV — Concluding Remarks
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About this edition
The text is free of copyright. This edition was prepared from an authoritative digitisation, processed by Bibliomancer under its own review protocol; every automated correction is recorded in its transformation log. Rights assessed for CA, EU, GB, US.
Part of American Literature.
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About the author
1811–1896 · Victorian
Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811–1896) was born in Litchfield, Connecticut, into a prominent family of ministers and reformers, and lived for eighteen years in Cincinnati, across the river from slave-holding Kentucky. Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852) made her the most famous woman writer of her time; she published some thirty further books, including Dred (1856), The Minister’s Wooing (1859) and Oldtown Folks (1869).
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