Uncle Tom’s Cabin (Identities and Issues in Literature)
At a glance:
- Author: Harriet Beecher Stowe
- First Published: 1851
- Genres: Long fiction, Social realism
- Subjects: African Americans, Segregation or integration, Freedom, Values, Suffering, Africa or Africans, Mothers, Parents and children, Love or romance, Race, South or Southerners, Superstition, Escapes, Nineteenth century, Slavery or slaves, Religion, Underground railroad, Faith, Cruelty, Morality or morals, Sacrifice
- Locales: New Orleans, LA, Kentucky, Ohio, Mississippi River, Liberia
The Work
Uncle Tom’s Cabin: Or, Life Among the Lowly is a sentimental novel that exaggerates the goodness of Eva, the loyalty of Uncle Tom, and the viciousness of Simon Legree. Despite the sentimentality, Harriet Beecher Stowe’s abhorrence of slavery resonates throughout.
The story is about the sufferings of kindly old Uncle Tom, who originally belongs to a humane slaveholder named Shelby, and the delightfully talented little black boy named Harry. Eliza, Harry’s mother, overhearing the plan to sell her, Harry, and Uncle Tom, flees with her son. Uncle Tom...
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