Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Author: Harriet Beecher Stowe
An alternative cover of this ISBN can be found here.Although the American anti-slavery movement had existed at least as long as the nation itself, Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852) galvanized public opinion as nothing had before. The book sold 10,000 copies in its first week and 300,000 in its first year. Its vivid dramatization of slavery’s cruelties so aroused readers tha….Read More
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