Author:
Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896, author.
Edition Statement:Third edition.
ImprintNew York : W. W. Norton & Company, [2018]
Descriptionxi, 648 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm.
Note:The text of Uncle Tom's cabin -- Backgrounds and contexts -- Map: the eastern United States in the antebellum period -- Slave sale announcements -- Escaped slave advertisements -- Abolition posters -- Visual records of torture -- [A visitor's description of slavery's atrocity] / J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur -- from Appeal, in four articles / David Walker -- from Life of Josiah Henson / Josia Henson -- [A slave auction described by a slave, 1841] / Solomon Northup -- [A freeperson's memory of slavery's horror] / Henrietta King -- The trials of girlhood / Harriet Jacobs -- [Another kidnapping, 1844] ; [The flight of Ellen and William Craft, 1849] / William Wells brown -- Letter to the abolitionist Eliza Cabot Follen ; from A key to "Uncle Tom's cabin" ; An appeal to the women of the free states of America, on the present crisis in our country / Harriet Beecher Stowe -- from Blake; or, The huts of America / Martin Delany -- Uncle Tom and the Anglo-Saxons: romantic racialism in the north / George M. Fredrickson -- Illustrations for Uncle Tom's cabin / George Cruikshank -- Anti-Uncle Tom literature / Thomas F. Gossett -- [Tom-shows] / Mary C. Henderson -- Tom-show stationery -- Criticism -- Nineteenth-century reviews and reception -- Review of Uncle Tom's cabin / George Sand -- [About Uncle Tom's cabin] / Wililam G. Allen -- Review of Uncle Tom's cabin / Ethiop -- Review of Uncle Tom's cabin / George F. Holmes -- Review of Uncle Tom's cabin / Anonymous -- [Uncle Tom's cabin a half century later] / Charles Dudley Warner -- Eliza Harris / Frances Ellen Watkins Harper -- [Harriet Beecher Stowe and American women writers] / Helen Gray Cone -- Harriet Beecher Stowe / Paul Laurence Dunbar -- Reminiscences of the life of Harriet Beecher Stowe and her family / G. Grant Williams -- Modern critical views -- Everybody's protest novel / James Baldwin -- Sentimental power: Uncle Tom's cabin and the politics of literary history / Jane P. Tompkins -- Uncle Tom's cabin in Frederick Douglass' paper: an analysis of reception / Robert S. Levine -- Who gets to create the lasting images? the problem of Black representation in Uncle Tom's cabin / Sophia Cantave -- Freeing the slaves and banishing the Blacks: racism, empire, and Africa in Uncle Tom's cabin / Elizabeth Ammons -- The unsentimental woman preacher of Uncle Tom's cabin / Dawn Coleman -- "Taking care a white babies, that's what I do": The help, [Uncle Tom's cabin], and Americans' obsession with the mammy / Katrina Dyonne Thompson -- Harriet Beecher Stowe: a chronology -- A brief time line of slavery in America.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (pages 647-648).
Note:This edition includes:The 1852 first book edition, accompanied by a preface, note on the text, and explanatory annotations. Twenty-two illustrations and historical documents on slavery and abolitionism are included, as are seventeen critical reviews spanning more than 160 years.
