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Uncle Tom’s Cabin

by Harriet Beecher Stowe

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First published
1852 (book edition)
Pages
357Digital editionReference edition
Reading time
About 7 hours15 half-hour sittings
Language
English
Reading difficulty
Not set

A little about the story

When a Kentucky enslaver agrees to sell Tom and the child Harry, Eliza flees with her son while Tom is sent farther south. Their paths show how the slave trade breaks up families and makes individual safety dependent on someone else’s decisions.

Stowe switches between households and levels of society. Her direct appeals to readers make the novel a record of how abolitionists tried to reach a nineteenth-century audience.

Is it for you?

You’ll enjoy it if you like

  • abolitionist literature
  • interwoven family stories
  • nineteenth-century social novels

Things You May Not Know About Uncle Tom's Cabin

  • The novel appeared in serial form before its book publication.
  • Christian language shapes both Tom’s choices and the narrator’s appeals.

About this edition

This English edition comes from Project Gutenberg. The Freebookia PDF has 357 pages. The EPUB adjusts to your reading settings.

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