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A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin

Harriet Beecher Stowe

The book serves as a companion piece to Stowe's novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin," providing factual evidence, documents, and corroborative statements to verify the realities of slavery depicted in the fictional narrative.

"A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin" by Harriet Beecher Stowe is a historical account. The book serves as a companion piece to Stowe's novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin," providing factual evidence, documents, and corroborative statements to verify the realities of slavery depicted in the fictional narrative.

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The character of George Harris has been represented as overdrawn, both as respects personal qualities and general intelligence. It has been said, too, that so many afflictive incidents happening to a slave are improbable, and present a distorted view of the institution.

In regard to person, it must be remembered that the half-breeds often inherit, to a great degree, the traits of their white ancestors. For this there is abundant evidence in the advertisements of the papers. Witness the following from the Chattanooga (Tenn.) Gazette, Oct. 5th, 1852:

Contents

  1. 01Chapter IV. George Harris.
  2. 02Chapter V. Eliza.
  3. 03Chapter VI. Uncle Tom.
  4. 04Chapter VII. Miss Ophelia.
  5. 05Chapter VIII. Marie St. Clare.
  6. 06Chapter IX. St. Clare.
  7. 07Chapter X. Legree.
  8. 08Chapter XI. Select Incidents of Lawful Trade.
  9. 09Chapter XII. Topsy.
  10. 10Chapter XIII. The Quakers.
  11. 11Chapter XIV. The Spirit of St. Clare.
  12. 12Part II.
  13. 13Chapter I.
  14. 14Chapter II. What Is Slavery?
  15. 15Chapter III. Souther v. The Commonwealth—The Ne Plus Ultra of Legal Humanity.
  16. 16Chapter IV. Protective Statutes.
  17. 17Chapter V. Protective Acts of South Carolina and Louisiana.—The Iron Collar of Louisiana and North Carolina.
  18. 18Chapter VI. Protective Acts with Regard to Food and Raiment, Labor, Etc.
  19. 19Chapter VII. The Execution of Justice.
  20. 20Chapter VIII. The Good Old Times.
  21. 21Chapter IX. Moderate Correction and Accidental Death—State v. Castleman.
  22. 22Chapter X. Principles Established.—State v. Legree; a Case Not in the Books.
  23. 23Chapter XI. The Triumph of Justice Over Law.
  24. 24Chapter XII. A Comparison of the Roman Law of Slavery with the American.
  25. 25Chapter XIII. The Men Better Than Their Laws.
  26. 26Chapter XIV. The Hebrew Slave-Law Compared with the American Slave-Law.
  27. 27Chapter XV. Slavery Is Despotism.
  28. 28Part III.
  29. 29Chapter I. Does Public Opinion Protect the Slave?
  30. 30Chapter II. Public Opinion Formed by Education.
  31. 31Chapter III. Separation of Families.
  32. 32Chapter IV. The Slave-Trade.
  33. 33Chapter V. Select Incidents of Lawful Trade, or Facts Stranger Than Fiction.
  34. 34Chapter VI.
  35. 35Chapter VII.
  36. 36Chapter VIII. Kidnapping.
  37. 37Chapter IX. Slaves as They Are, on Testimony of Owners.
  38. 38Chapter X. “Poor White Trash.”
  39. 39Part IV.
  40. 40Chapter I. The Influence of the American Church on Slavery.
  41. 41Chapter II.
  42. 42Chapter III. Martyrdom.
  43. 43Chapter IV. Servitude in the Primitive Church Compared with American Slavery.
  44. 44Chapter V.
  45. 45Chapter VI.
  46. 46Chapter VII.
  47. 47Chapter VIII. “Masters, give unto your servants that which is just and equal.”
  48. 48Chapter IX. Is the System of Religion Which Is Taught the Slave the Gospel?
  49. 49Chapter X. What Is to Be Done?
  50. 50Appendix. Fact vs. Figures; or, the Nine Arab Brothers. Being a New Arabian Night’s Entertainment.
  51. 51Index.
  52. 52Erratum.
  53. 53Transcriber’s Notes

About this edition

Author
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Language
English
Era
Modern (c. 1800–1945)
Reading level
Advanced: for close, demanding reading
Formats
EPUB, PDF
Length
644 pages
This edition
Modern Philosophers

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