Uncle Tom's Cabin Nce 2E Pa
ISBN: 9780393933994 | 0393933997
Edition: 2ndFormat: Textbook Paperback
Publisher: W W NORTON
Pub. Date: 2/17/2010
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In the nineteenth century, Uncle Tom's Cabin sold more copies than any book in the world except the Bible. Upon publication, it was quickly translated into thirty-seven languages and has never gone out of print. It remains a controversial and complex text that, along with David Walker's Appeal , Henry David Thoreau's Walden , W. E. B. DuBois's The Souls of Black Folk , and Helena María Viramontes' Under the Feet of Jesus , among others, stands out as an important text in the progressive struggle for social justice in the United States. This Sec... MORE
| Preface | |
| A Note on the Text | |
| Acknowledgments | |
| The Text of Uncle Tom's Cabin | |
| First-edition title page | |
| Preface | |
| Table of Contents | |
| List of Illustrations | |
| Uncle Tom's Cabin | |
| Backgrounds and Contexts | |
| Map: The Eastern United States in the Antebellum Period | |
| Slav... MORE | |
| Escaped Slave Advertisements | |
| Abolition Posters | |
| Visual Records of Torture | |
| J. Hector St. John de Crčvecoeur • [A Visitor's Description of Slavery's Atrocity] | |
| David Walker • [from Appeal, In Four Articles] | |
| Josiah Henson • Life of Josiah Henson | |
| Solomon Northup • A Slave Auction Described by a Slave, 1841 | |
| Henrietta King • [A Freeperson's Memory of Slavery's Horror] | |
| Harriet Jacobs • The Trials of Girlhood | |
| William Wells Brown • Another Kidnapping, 1844 | |
| • The Flight of Ellen and William Craft, 1849 | |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe • Letter to the Abolitionist Eliza Cabot Follen | |
| • From A Key to "Uncle Tom's Cabin" | |
| Uncle Tom | |
| The Execution of Justice | |
| • Appeal to the Women of the Free States | |
| Martin Delany • from Blake; or, The Huts of America | |
| George M. Frederickson • Uncle Tom and the Anglo-Saxons: Romantic Racialism in the North | |
| George Cruikshank • Illustration: Tom reading his Bible | |
| • Illustration: The poor bleeding heart | |
| • Illustration: Emmeline about to be sold to the highest bidder | |
| Thomas F. Gosset • Anti-Uncle Tom Literature | |
| Mary C. Henderson • [Tom Shows] | |
| Tom-Show Poster | |
| Criticism | |
| Nineteenth-Century Reviews and Reception | |
| George Sand • Review of Uncle Tom's Cabin | |
| William G. Allen • [About Uncle Tom's Cabin] | |
| Ethiop • Review of Uncle Tom's Cabin | |
| George F. Holmes • Review of Uncle Tom's Cabin | |
| Anonymous • Review of Uncle Tom's Cabin | |
| Charles Dudley Warner • [Uncle Tom's Cabin a Half Century Later] | |
| Frances Ellen Watkins [Harper] • Eliza Harris | |
| Helen Gray Cone • [Harriet Beecher Stowe and American Women Writers] | |
| Paul Laurence Dunbar • Harriet Beecher Stowe | |
| G. Grant Williams • Reminiscence of the Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe and Her Family | |
| Modern Critical Views | |
| James Baldwin • Everybody's Protest Novel | |
| Jane P. Tompkins • Sentimental Power: Uncle Tom's Cabin and the Politics of Literary History | |
| Robert S. Levine • Uncle Tom's Cabin in Frederick Douglass' Paper: An Analysis of Reception | |
| Sophia Cantave • Who Gets to Create the Lasting Images? The Problem of Black Representation in Uncle Tom's Cabin | |
| Susan M. Ryan • Charity Begins at Home: Stowe's Antislavery Novels and the Forms of Benevolent Citizenship | |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Chronology | |
| A Brief Timeline of Slavery in America | |
| Selected Bibliography | |
| Table of Contents provided by Publisher. All Rights Reserved. |
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