Uncle Tom's Cabin

[Jim Klag]

March 20, 1852 - First publication of Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe.

"Uncle Tom’s Cabin" is published

Harriet Beecher Stowe’s anti-slavery novel, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, is published. The novel sold 300,000 copies within three months and was so widely read that when President Abraham Lincoln met Stowe in 1862, he reportedly said, “So this is the little lady who made this big war.” Stowe was born in...

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[Jim Klag]

On March 20, 1852, "Uncle Tom's Cabin,"...

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[Jim Klag]

The Story of Josiah Henson, the Real Inspiration for 'Uncle Tom’s Cabin'

Before there was the novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe, a formerly enslaved African-American living in Canada wrote a memoir detailing his experience

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[O' Be Joyful]

HARRIET BEECHER STOWE HOUSE

historical, museum, historic site, historic house

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[Matt McKeon]

I did a quick lesson on UTC on Friday. It was only OK. I try to hit the theme that Stowe was indicting slave owning as a system, not a sin. Her views about women dovetailed with the domestic sphere and Victorian attitudes about family, and the final religious image: Tom as a Black Christ.

 

[Joshism]

For such an influential book at the time does anybody read it anymore? It seems like Upton Sinclair: a book everyone learns about in school, but nobody reads in school.

 

[rittmeister]

For such an influential book at the time does anybody read it anymore? It seems like Upton Sinclair: a book everyone learns about in school, but nobody reads in school.

Uncle Tom's Cabin

Harriet Beecher-Stowe novel of 1852, directed against slavery in America. The novel produced a great public outcry; According to some estimates, he was exiled to the US Civil War Hijina Dyadi Toma

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[Jim Klag]

Uncle Tom's Cabin

Harriet Beecher-Stowe novel of 1852, directed against slavery in America. The novel produced a great public outcry; According to some estimates, he was exiled to the US Civil War Hijina Dyadi Toma

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just in case you want to

Good site.

 

[Matt McKeon]

For such an influential book at the time does anybody read it anymore? It seems like Upton Sinclair: a book everyone learns about in school, but nobody reads in school.

A lot of it is very Victorian. The ending section of the duel of wills between Tom and Simon Legree is still riveting.