Uncle Tom's Cabin
By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Cover: Negro Life at the South (c. 1870 version), oil on canvas by Eastman Johnson (1824-1906) · Wikimedia Commons · Public domain (artist died 1906)
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".
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Table of contents
- 1: In Which the Reader Is Introduced to a Man of Humanity
- 2: The Mother
- 3: The Husband and Father
- 4: An Evening in Uncle Tom’s Cabin
- 5: Showing the Feelings of Living Property on Changing Owners
- 6: Discovery
- 7: The Mother’s Struggle
- 8: Eliza’s Escape
- 9: In Which It Appears That a Senator Is But a Man
- 10: The Property Is Carried Off
- 11: In Which Property Gets into an Improper State of Mind
- 12: Select Incident of Lawful Trade
- 13: The Quaker Settlement
- 14: Evangeline
- 15: Of Tom’s New Master, and Various Other Matters
- 16: Tom’s Mistress and Her Opinions
- 17: The Freeman’s Defence
- 18: Miss Ophelia’s Experiences and Opinions
- 19: Miss Ophelia’s Experiences and Opinions Continued
- 20: Topsy
- 21: Kentuck
- 22: “The Grass Withereth—the Flower Fadeth”
- 23: Henrique
- 24: Foreshadowings
- 25: The Little Evangelist
- 26: Death
- 27: “This Is the Last of Earth”
- 28: Reunion
- 29: The Unprotected
- 30: The Slave Warehouse
- 31: The Middle Passage
- 32: Dark Places
- 33: Cassy
- 34: The Quadroon’s Story
- 35: The Tokens
- 36: Emmeline and Cassy
- 37: Liberty
- 38: The Victory
- 39: The Stratagem
- 40: The Martyr
- 41: The Young Master
- 42: An Authentic Ghost Story
- 43: Results
- 44: The Liberator
- 45: Concluding Remarks