Uncle Tom's Cabin: Life Among the Lowly
by Stowe, Harriet Beecher
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Nevada City, California, United States
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About This Item
The volume has been professionally rebound with original dark brown front cover, replaced spine with original spine glued on showing original gold lettering of title, author and publisher. Back cover is replaced. Title page has been professionally repaired with tissue but shows original title, subtitle, author, publisher and date (see photos) Interior pages are complete but show wear and occasional staining. Previous owner name on title page and related owner name on original back endpaper with notation Nevada City, Cal.
Synopsis
In Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriett Beecher Stowe, the title character Uncle Tom is a long-suffering slave, loyal to both his faith and his master. Presented with an opportunity to escape, he instead chooses to remain in slavery to avoid embarrassing his master. After being sold to a slave trader, Tom suffers brutal treatment and is eventually beaten to death for his refusal to betray his friends — made to represent an ideal of true Christianity. Enormously popular (it was the best-selling novel of the 19th century) and influential, it’s publication in 1852 was instrumental in bringing visibility to the cruel reality of slavery. In more recent years, it has come under considerable criticism for its portrayal of meekness and subservience and the phrase “Uncle Tom” is sometimes used as an epithet for someone seen as overly subservient.
Reviews
Excellent book to gain empathy and insight into the enslaved pathos, struggle and plight! This book presents well designed ideas to ennoble and elivate the human race as brothers, and sisters of a common God, and Father of us all.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Friends of the Libraries of Nevada County (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 12-19 1 box 6
- Title
- Uncle Tom's Cabin
- Author
- Stowe, Harriet Beecher
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Ticknor and Fields
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1864
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- slavery, history, civil war, American Literature, civil rights
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