Uncle Tom''s Cabin

Uncle Toms Cabin is the most powerful and enduring work of art ever written about American slavery-Alfred Kazin

To expose oneself in maturity to Uncle Toms cabin mayprove a startling experience-Edmund Wilson

In Uncle Toms Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe created Americas first black literary hero as well as the nations antecedent protest novel. The novels vast influence on attitudes towards African American slavery was considered an incitation towards the American Civil War; conjointly, its powerful anti-slavery message resonated with readers around the world at its time of publication.

With unashamed sentimentality and expressions of faith, Harriet Beecher Stowe, in Uncle Toms Cabin tells the story of the lives of African American slaves from a Kentucky plantation; The masters maid, Eliza; her son, Henry; and, of course, Uncle Tom, the righteous and kind protagonist at the center of the book. When Arthur Selby, a Kentucky slave-owner decides to sell his slaves due to dire financial turns, Eliza runs away with her son, and Tom is sold to a slave trader named Haley. On a Mississippi river boat, Toms fortunes are revered after he rescues Eva, a young white girl, from drowning. Evas kind father is so moved by Toms bravery that he buys him from Haley and brings him into his New Orleans home. In the series of calamitous events that follow, Tom ultimately finds himself in the bondage of the diabolical master Simon Legree. Still provoking controversies to this day, this is one of American literatures most important works of social justice.

With an eye-catching new cover, and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Uncle Toms Cabin is both modern and readable.