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Uncle Tom's Cabin

Harriet Beecher Stowe

The story introduces us to a variety of characters affected by the institution of slavery, focusing particularly on Uncle Tom, a devout and dignified enslaved man, alongside other figures like Eliza, who is desperate to save her child from being sold.

"Uncle Tom's Cabin" by Harriet Beecher Stowe is a novel. The story introduces us to a variety of characters affected by the institution of slavery, focusing particularly on Uncle Tom, a devout and dignified enslaved man, alongside other figures like Eliza, who is desperate to save her child from being sold.

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Late in the afternoon of a chilly day in February, two gentlemen were sitting alone over their wine, in a well-furnished dining parlor, in the town of P——, in Kentucky. There were no servants present, and the gentlemen, with chairs closely approaching, seemed to be discussing some subject with great earnestness.

For convenience sake, we have said, hitherto, two gentlemen. One of the parties, however, when critically examined, did not seem, strictly speaking, to come under the species. He was a short, thick-set man, with coarse, commonplace features, and that swaggering air of pretension which marks a low man who is trying to elbow his way upward in the world. He was much over-dressed, in a gaudy vest of many colors, a blue neckerchief, bedropped gayly with yellow spots, and arranged with a flaunting tie, quite in keeping with the general air of the man. His hands, large and coarse, were plentifully bedecked with rings; and he wore a heavy gold watch-chain, with a bundle of seals of portentous size, and a great variety of colors, attached to it,—which, in the ardor of conversation, he was in the habit of flourishing and jingling with evident satisfaction. His conversation was in free and easy defiance of Murray’s Grammar,[1] and was garnished at convenient intervals with various profane expressions, which not even the desire to be graphic in our account shall induce us to transcribe.

Contents

  1. 01Volume I
  2. 02Chapter I In Which the Reader Is Introduced to a Man of Humanity
  3. 03Chapter II The Mother
  4. 04Chapter III The Husband and Father
  5. 05Chapter IV An Evening in Uncle Tom’s Cabin
  6. 06Chapter V Showing the Feelings of Living Property on Changing Owners
  7. 07Chapter VI Discovery
  8. 08Chapter VII The Mother’s Struggle
  9. 09Chapter VIII Eliza’s Escape
  10. 10Chapter IX In Which It Appears That a Senator Is But a Man
  11. 11Chapter X The Property Is Carried Off
  12. 12Chapter XI In Which Property Gets into an Improper State of Mind
  13. 13Chapter XII Select Incident of Lawful Trade
  14. 14Chapter XIII The Quaker Settlement
  15. 15Chapter XIV Evangeline
  16. 16Chapter XV Of Tom’s New Master, and Various Other Matters
  17. 17Chapter XVI Tom’s Mistress and Her Opinions
  18. 18Chapter XVII The Freeman’s Defence
  19. 19Chapter XVIII Miss Ophelia’s Experiences and Opinions
  20. 20Volume II
  21. 21Chapter XIX Miss Ophelia’s Experiences and Opinions Continued
  22. 22Chapter XX Topsy
  23. 23Chapter XXI Kentuck
  24. 24Chapter XXII “The Grass Withereth—the Flower Fadeth”
  25. 25Chapter XXIII Henrique
  26. 26Chapter XXIV Foreshadowings
  27. 27Chapter XXV The Little Evangelist
  28. 28Chapter XXVI Death
  29. 29Chapter XXVII “This Is the Last of Earth”
  30. 30Chapter XXVIII Reunion
  31. 31Chapter XXIX The Unprotected
  32. 32Chapter XXX The Slave Warehouse
  33. 33Chapter XXXI The Middle Passage
  34. 34Chapter XXXII Dark Places
  35. 35Chapter XXXIII Cassy
  36. 36Chapter XXXIV The Quadroon’s Story
  37. 37Chapter XXXV The Tokens
  38. 38Chapter XXXVI Emmeline and Cassy
  39. 39Chapter XXXVII Liberty
  40. 40Chapter XXXVIII The Victory
  41. 41Chapter XXXIX The Stratagem
  42. 42Chapter XL The Martyr
  43. 43Chapter XLI The Young Master
  44. 44Chapter XLII An Authentic Ghost Story
  45. 45Chapter XLIII Results
  46. 46Chapter XLIV The Liberator
  47. 47Chapter XLV Concluding Remarks

About this edition

Author
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Language
English
Era
Modern (c. 1800–1945)
Reading level
Intermediate: some philosophy helps
Formats
EPUB, PDF
Length
519 pages
This edition
Modern Philosophers

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