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Uncle Tom's Cabin first appeared as a 40-week serial in The National Era, an abolitionist periodical, starting with this June 5, 1851 publication. Date: 5 June 1851: Source: University of Virginia: Author: The National Era, Washington DC: Permission (Reusing this file)
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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".
The popular negative connotations of "Uncle Tom" have largely been attributed to the numerous derivative works inspired by Uncle Tom's Cabin in the decade after its release, rather than to the original novel itself, whose title character is a more positive figure. [4]
Portrait of Hammatt Billings. Charles Howland Hammatt Billings (1818–1874) was an artist and architect from Boston, Massachusetts.. Among his works are the original illustrations for Uncle Tom's Cabin (both the initial printing [1] and an expanded 1853 edition), [2] the National Monument to the Forefathers, the Civil War monument in Concord, Mass., and the 19th-century granite canopy (since ...
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The great interest in Uncle Tom’s Cabin in England also transferred to the Key. One English review of the 1853 publication called it a "marvelous book, more so if possible than Uncle Tom’s Cabin itself". [2] This same review also commends Stowe's self-control and character. This impression of Stowe and the reception of the book is very ...
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