Abraham Lincoln's apocryphal comment upon metting Harriet Beecher Stowe demonstrates the significant place Uncle Tom's Cabin holds in American history - and literature. Stowe's timeless and moving novel inflamed the passions and prejudices of thousands, fanning the embers of the struggle between free and slave states into the fire of the Civil War.
Uncle Tom's Cabin is the story of the slave Tom. Devout and loyal, he is sold and sent down south, where he endures brutal … mehrtreatment at the hands of the degenerate plantation owner Simon Legree. By exposing the extreme cruelties of slavery, Stowe explores society's failures and asks a profound question: "What is it to be a moral human being?" And as the novel that helped to move a nation to battle, Uncle Tom's Cabin is an essential part of the collective experience of the American people.
With an Introduction by Darryl Pinckney
and an Afterword by Jonathan Arac weniger