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Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. Published in two volumes in 1852, the novel had a profound effect on attitudes toward African Americans and slavery in the U.S., and is said to have "helped lay the groundwork for the [American] Civil War". [1] [2] [3]
A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin. A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin is a book by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. It was published to document the veracity of the depiction of slavery in Stowe's anti-slavery novel Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852). First published in 1853 by Jewett, Proctor & Worthington, the book also provides insights into Stowe's own views ...
A Cabana do Pai Tomás was a 1969-70 Brazilian television serial adaptation of the Harriet Beecher Stowe story. A 1971 Italian pseudo-documentary film called Goodbye Uncle Tom recreated historical events from the slave era. It was generally thought at the time to be exploitive and racist.
The author of a new book on the inspiration behind Harriet Beecher Stowe’s classic novel says John Andrew Jackson is uniquely South Carolinian.
Uncle Tom is the title character of Harriet Beecher Stowe 's 1852 novel Uncle Tom's Cabin. [1] The character was seen in the Victorian era as a ground-breaking literary attack against the dehumanization of slaves. Tom is a deeply religious Christian preacher to his fellow slaves who uses nonresistance, but who is willingly flogged to death ...
Uncle Tom's Cabin is a 1903 American silent short drama directed by Edwin S. Porter and produced by the Edison Manufacturing Company. The film was adapted from the 1852 novel Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe. The plot streamlined the actual story to portray the film over the course of 19 minutes. The film was released on 3 August 1903 ...
Over the next three years, it sold 6,000 copies. It was reprinted after, with different pagination by the Observer Press of Dresden, Ontario, for Uncle Tom's Cabin and Museum in Dresden. When it was later known that Henson's narrative was the model for Uncle Tom's Cabin, his sale increased to a total of 100,000 sales.
The main title of Smith's novel – Life at the South; or "Uncle Tom's Cabin" As It Is – resembles the full title of another anti-Tom novel, Aunt Phillis's Cabin: or, Southern Life As It Is by Mary Henderson Eastman, which was published the same year as Smith's novel. Eastman's novel was a bestseller, with tens of thousands of copies in ...