Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of Uncle Tom's Cabin, wrote this 1869 novel with the intent of describing a New England village's life and character in the years after the Revolutionary War, before the advent of industrialization. Said Stowe, in the voice of the novel's narrator Horace Holyoke, "I would endeavor to show you New England in its seed-bed, before the hot suns of modern progress had developed its sprouting germs into the great trees of today." She based some of the book on the childhood memories of her husband, Calvin Ellis Stowe, and the residents of his birthplace, Natick,...

Two years after the publication ofUncle Tom's Cabin brought Harriet Beecher Stowe widespread acclaim, Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands was published in two volumes in 1854. This book, which was a memoir of her travels in England, Scotland, France, Switzerland, and The Rhine, includes 49 letters from Mrs. Stowe to her friends, as well as a journal from Stowe's brother, Reverend C. Beecher. "The work is an admirable one; conceived in a wholesome spirit, written with a genial pen, and literally overflowing with brilliant flashes of poetry and humor." "One of the principle charms of Mrs. Stowe's...

Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly, is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. Published in 1852, the novel "helped lay the groundwork for the Civil War," according to Will Kaufman. Stowe, a Connecticut-born teacher at the Hartford Female Academy and an active abolitionist, featured the character of Uncle Tom, a long-suffering black slave around whom the stories of other characters revolve. The sentimental novel depicts the reality of slavery while also asserting that Christian love can overcome something as destructive as enslavement of fellow human beings.

Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly, is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. Published in 1852, the novel "helped lay the groundwork for the Civil War," according to Will Kaufman. Stowe, a Connecticut-born teacher at the Hartford Female Academy and an active abolitionist, featured the character of Uncle Tom, a long-suffering black slave around whom the stories of other characters revolve. The sentimental novel depicts the reality of slavery while also asserting that Christian love can overcome something as destructive as enslavement of fellow human beings.

Acosado por las deudas, Mr. Shelby, dueno de plantaciones en Kentucky, debe desprenderse de varios de sus esclavos, entre ellos Elisa, que al enterarse de que su hijo sera entregado a un traficante, huye con el pequeno hacia el Canada, en donde se encontrara con su esposo, esclavo en una plantacion vecina, que tambien se ha fugado. Como el tio Tom, el mas apreciado entre los esclavos, no quiso huir, separado de su mujer y de sus hijos, termina en manos de un plantador brutal y borracho, que lo flagela brutalmente, hasta la muerte, porque se niega a revelarle la pista de dos esclavas...

Harriet Beecher Stowe ( 1811 - 1896) was an American abolitionist and author. Her novel Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852) was a depiction of life for African Americans under slavery; it reached millions as a novel and play, and became influential in the United States and United Kingdom. It energized anti-slavery forces in the American North, while provoking widespread anger in the South. She wrote more than 20 books, including novels, three travel memoirs, and collections of articles and letters. She was influential both for her writings and her public stands on social issues of the day. In this book:...

Harriet Beecher Stowe (Litchfield (Connecticut), 14 juni 1811 - Hartford (Connecticut), 1 juli 1896) was een Amerikaans abolitioniste en schrijfster. Met Uncle Tom's Cabin schreef ze in 1852 een sterk pleidooi voor de afschaffing van de slavernij. Tijdens haar leven schreef zij meer dan 10 werken. Het bekendste hiervan is Uncle Tom's Cabin (De negerhut van Oom Tom), een beschrijving van het leven van Amerikaanse slaven dat tussen 1851 en 1852 in serievorm gepubliceerd werd in het abolitionistische blad de National Era van Gamaliel Bailey. Het boek werd wereldwijd een enorm succes en verscheen...

In 1852 Harriet Beecher Stowe published "Uncle Tom's Cabin, " an instant classic that received overwhelming acclaim by Northerners and other abolitionist readers. Southerners, conversely, strongly denied the novel's accuracy. The following year Stowe answered pro-slavery critics with this unique bestseller, a meticulous and thoughtful defense of her work, which cites real-life equivalents to her characters.
Southern readers were further incensed by this follow-up volume, their wrath in no small part inflamed by a Yankee woman's presuming to tell men what to think. A critical aspect of...

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