Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Uncle Tom's Cabin (Boyer, 2008)

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The publication in 1852 of Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel Uncle Tom's Cabin, arouse wide northern sympathy for fugitive slaves…Stowe targeted slavery itself more than merely the slave-catchers who served the institution. Much of her novel's powers derives from its view that even good intentions cannot prevail against so evil an institution...Three hundred thousand copies of Uncle Tom's Cabin were sold in 1852, and 1.2 million by the summer of 1853...The impact of Uncle Tom's Cabin cannot be precisely measured. Although the novel stirred deep feelings, it reflected the prevailing stereotypes of blacks far more than it overturned commonly held views.
Paul S. Boyer, et al., eds., The Enduring Vision: A History of the American People, 6th ed. (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2008), 402.

Uncle Tom's Cabin (King, 1986)

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The [Fugitive Slave Law] also inspired Harriet Beecher Stowe to write Uncle Tom's Cabin, a dramatic novel showing the plight of plantation slaves.
David C. King, et al., United States History: Presidential Edition (Menlo Park: CA: Addison–Wesley Publishing Company, 1986), 266.
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Frances Watkins Harper to William Still, October 20, 1854
Washington (DC) National Era, “The Pro-Slavery Press of the South,” February 26, 1857
Washington (DC) National Era, “Collapse of Abolitionists,” October 22, 1857
New York Herald, “The Anti-Slavery Tactics,” March 10, 1859
New York Herald, “Anti-Slavery Theatres and Litterateurs,” December 9, 1859
New York National Anti-Slavery Standard, "Speech of Rev. M.D. Conway," August 9, 1862
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Hedrick, Joan D. Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Life. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994. View Record
Levine, Robert S. "Uncle Tom's Cabin in Frederick Douglass' Paper: An Analysis of Reception." American Literature 64, no. 1 (1992): 71-93. View Record
Moers, Ellen. Harriet Beecher Stowe and American Literature. Hartford, CT: Stowe-Day Foundation, 1978. View Record
Stearns, Edward Josiah. Notes on Uncle Tom’s Cabin: Being a Logical Answer to its Allegations and Inferences against Slavery as an Institution. Philadelphia: Lippincott, Grambo & Company, 1853. View Record
Sundquist, Eric J. New Essays on Uncle Tom's Cabin. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1986. View Record
Vollaro, Daniel R. “Lincoln, Stowe, and the “Little Woman/Great War” Story: The Making, and Breaking, of a Great American Anecdote.” Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association 30, no. 1 (Winter 2009): 18-34. View Record
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