Uncle Tom's Cabin

The first black hero of literature, Harriet Beecher Stowe's Tom is a slave who suffers for refusing to obey his white oppressors. Few books have changed the world as much as Uncle Tom's Cabin, which was published in 1852, nine years before the start of the American Civil War. It galvanized opposition to slavery in the free states, vividly dramatizing slavery's cruelties for mass audiences. This elegantly designed clothbound edition features an elastic closure and a new introduction.

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"Uncle Tom's Cabin is the most powerful and enduring work of art ever written about American slavery." --Alfred Kazin

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Product details

• Format Paperback | 480 pages
• Dimensions 146 x 191 x 25.4mm | 521.63g
• Publication date 06 Oct 2016
• Publisher Race Point Publishing
• Publication City/Country New York, United States
• Language English
• ISBN10 1631062441
• ISBN13 9781631062445