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Uncle Tom's cabin or, Life among the lowly

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Main Author: Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896
Other Authors: Douglas, Ann, 1942-
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York, N.Y. : Penguin Books, 1981.
Series:The Penguin American library
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Uncle Tom (Fictitious character) > Fiction.
Master and servant > Fiction.
African Americans > Fiction.
Fugitive slaves > Fiction.
Plantation life > Fiction.
Southern States > Fiction.
Slavery > Fiction.
Slaves > Fiction.
Political fiction > United States.
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Physical Description:629 p. : port. ; 18 cm.
Bibliography:Bibliography: p. 35-36.
ISBN:0140390030 (pbk.)
Author Notes:Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896) was born in Litchfield, Connecticut, daughter of the Reverend Lyman Beecher of the local Congregational Church. In 1832, the family moved to Cincinnati, where Harriet married Calvin Ellis Stowe, a professor at the seminary, in 1836. The border town of Cincinnati was alive with abolitionist conflict and there Mrs. Stowe took an active part in community life. She came into contact with fugitive slaves, and learned from friends and from personal visits what life was like for the Negro in the South. In 1850, the Fugitive Slave Law was passed, and that same year Harriet's sister-in-law urged the author to put her feelings about the evils of slavery into words. Uncle Tom's Cabin was first published serially during 1851-52 in The National Era, and in book form in 1852. In one year more than 300,000 copies of the novel were sold. Mrs. Stowe continued to write, publishing eleven other novels and numerous articles before her death at the age of eighty-five in Hartford, Connecticut.

Ann Douglas teaches English at Columbia University. Her books include Terrible Honesty: Mongrel Manhattan in the 1920s and The Feminization of American Culture .

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