Harriet Beecher Stowe - Uncle Tom's Cabin - 1930
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"Uncle Tom's Cabin" by Harriet Beecher Stowe, illustrated by R. H. Brock; 1st Edition Thus from around 1930, hardback with dust jacket, in very good condition.
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"Uncle Tom's Cabin" by Harriet Beecher Stowe and illustrated by R.H. Brock - The Boy's Own Paper, London - ca first thus UK edition - 18cmx15cm - condition: book in very good condition, frontispiece plate and all b/w illustrations present, in rare pictorial dustwrapper in excellent condition with minor wear, often times found in worse state.
Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. Published in two volumes in 1852, the novel had a profound effect on attitudes toward African Americans and slavery in the U.S., and is said to have "helped lay the groundwork for the American Civil War".[1][2][3]
Stowe, a Connecticut-born teacher at the Hartford Female Seminary, was part of the religious Beecher family and an active abolitionist. She wrote the sentimental novel to depict the horrors of slavery while also asserting that Christian love could overcome slavery.[4][5][6] The novel focuses on the character of Uncle Tom, a long-suffering black slave around whom the stories of the other characters revolve.
In the United States, Uncle Tom's Cabin was the best-selling novel and the second best-selling book of the 19th century, following the Bible.[7][8] It is credited with helping fuel the abolitionist cause in the 1850s.[9] The influence attributed to the book was so great that a likely apocryphal story arose of Abraham Lincoln meeting Stowe at the start of the Civil War and declaring, "So this is the little lady who started this great war."[10][11]
The book and the plays it inspired helped popularize a number of negative stereotypes about black people,[12][13][3] including that of the namesake character "Uncle Tom". The term came to be associated with an excessively subservient person.[14] These later associations with Uncle Tom's Cabin have, to an extent, overshadowed the historical effects of the book as a "vital antislavery tool".[15] Nonetheless, the novel remains a "landmark" in protest literature,[16] with later books such as The Jungle by Upton Sinclair and Silent Spring by Rachel Carson owing a large debt to it
"Uncle Tom's Cabin" by Harriet Beecher Stowe and illustrated by R.H. Brock - The Boy's Own Paper, London - ca first thus UK edition - 18cmx15cm - condition: book in very good condition, frontispiece plate and all b/w illustrations present, in rare pictorial dustwrapper in excellent condition with minor wear, often times found in worse state.
Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. Published in two volumes in 1852, the novel had a profound effect on attitudes toward African Americans and slavery in the U.S., and is said to have "helped lay the groundwork for the American Civil War".[1][2][3]
Stowe, a Connecticut-born teacher at the Hartford Female Seminary, was part of the religious Beecher family and an active abolitionist. She wrote the sentimental novel to depict the horrors of slavery while also asserting that Christian love could overcome slavery.[4][5][6] The novel focuses on the character of Uncle Tom, a long-suffering black slave around whom the stories of the other characters revolve.
In the United States, Uncle Tom's Cabin was the best-selling novel and the second best-selling book of the 19th century, following the Bible.[7][8] It is credited with helping fuel the abolitionist cause in the 1850s.[9] The influence attributed to the book was so great that a likely apocryphal story arose of Abraham Lincoln meeting Stowe at the start of the Civil War and declaring, "So this is the little lady who started this great war."[10][11]
The book and the plays it inspired helped popularize a number of negative stereotypes about black people,[12][13][3] including that of the namesake character "Uncle Tom". The term came to be associated with an excessively subservient person.[14] These later associations with Uncle Tom's Cabin have, to an extent, overshadowed the historical effects of the book as a "vital antislavery tool".[15] Nonetheless, the novel remains a "landmark" in protest literature,[16] with later books such as The Jungle by Upton Sinclair and Silent Spring by Rachel Carson owing a large debt to it
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Number of Books
1
Subject
Children's books, Illustrated, Literature
Book Title
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Author/ Illustrator
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Condition
Very good
Publication year oldest item
1930
Edition
1st Edition Thus
Language
English
Original language
Yes
Binding/ Material
Hardback
Extras
Dust jacket
Number of pages
0
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