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Uncle Tom's Cabin: Or Life Among the Lowly (1899)

Uncle Tom's Cabin: Or Life Among the Lowly (1899)

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

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20th Century United States HistoryFiction AnthologiesGeneral Racism & Ethnic Studies

ISBN10: 1120331730
ISBN13: 9781120331731
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Published: Oct 15 2009
Pages: 550
Weight: 1.60
Height: 1.11 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Uncle Tom's Cabin: Or Life Among The Lowly is a novel written by Harriet Beecher Stowe in 1899. The story is set in the mid-19th century and revolves around the life of a slave named Tom. The book is divided into several chapters, each one dealing with a different aspect of Tom's life as a slave. The novel is a powerful indictment of slavery and its dehumanizing effects on both the slaves and their owners. Stowe portrays the slaves as human beings with emotions and feelings, rather than mere property. The book also highlights the hypocrisy of Christian slave owners who claim to be devout but still own slaves. Throughout the novel, Tom faces numerous challenges and hardships, including being separated from his family and being sold to different owners. He is eventually sold to a cruel and sadistic plantation owner named Simon Legree, who forces Tom to work under brutal conditions. The novel also features other characters, including Eliza, a slave who escapes with her son, and Eva, a young white girl who befriends Tom. The book explores themes of love, family, and the struggle for freedom. Uncle Tom's Cabin was a groundbreaking novel that helped to galvanize the abolitionist movement in the United States. It remains a classic work of American literature and an important historical document that sheds light on the horrors of slavery.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.

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