Uncle Tom's Cabin / or Negro Life in the Slave States of America / by Harriet Beecher Stowe ; with an introduction and notes by Dr. Keith Carabine.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Uncle Tom (Fictitious character)--Fiction.

Uncle Tom (Fictitious character).

African Americans--Fiction.

African Americans.

Master and servant--Fiction.

Master and servant.

Fugitive slaves--Fiction.

Fugitive slaves.

Plantation life--Fiction.

Plantation life.

Slavery--Fiction.

Slavery.

Southern States--Fiction.

Southern States.

Genre:

Fiction.

Political fiction.

Physical Description:

xxxvi, 438 pages

Place of Publication:

New York : Wordsworth Classics, 2002, 1995.

Summary:

Uncle Tom's Cabin brought the evils of slavery to the consciences and hearts of the American people by its moving portrayal of slave experience. Harriet Beecher Stowe shows us in scenes of great dramatic power the human effects of a system in which slaves were property: the break up of families, the struggles for freedom, and the horrors of plantation labour. She brings into fiction the different voices of the emerging American nation; the Southern slave-owning classes, Northern abolitionists, the sorrow songs and dialect of slaves, as well as the language of political debate and religious zeal. The novel was, and is, controversial and abrasive in its demand for change.

ISBN:

1840224029

9781840224023

OCLC:

608850919