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"Uncle Tom's Cabin is the most powerful and enduring work of art ever written about American slavery." ?Alfred Kazin
Bantam
February 1983
544 pages ISBN: 0553212184 Paperback (reprint)
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Fiction | Historical
Uncle Tom, Topsy, Sambo, Simon Legree, little Eva: their
names are American bywords, and all of them are characters
in Harriet Beecher Stowe's remarkable novel of the pre-Civil
War South. Uncle Tom's Cabin was revolutionary in
1852 for its passionate indictment of slavery and for its
presentation of Tom, "a man of humanity," as the first black
hero in American fiction. Labeled racist and condescending
by some contemporary critics, it remains a shocking,
controversial, and powerful work -- exposing the attitudes
of white nineteenth-century society toward "the peculiar
institution" and documenting, in heartrending detail, the
tragic breakup of black Kentucky families "sold down the
river." An immediate international sensation, Uncle Tom's
Cabin sold 300,000 copies in the first year, was
translated into thirty-seven languages, and has never gone
out of print: its political impact was immense, its
emotional influence immeasurable.
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