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Uncle Tom s Cabin,: Life amoung the Lowly
by Harriet Beecher STOWE
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- Hardcover
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- Condition
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PAWLEYS ISLAND, South Carolina, United States
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About This Item
This blue leather bound hardcover is a Collector's Edition with 22kt gold accents inlaid on distinctive covers and hubbed spines. It has smyth-sewn pages with concealed muslin joints for quality binding. The pristine book is printed on archival paper with gilded edges, moiré fabric end-sheets, and a satin ribbon page marker.
Harriet Beecher STOWE'S Uncle Tom s Cabin, written in 1852, portrays slave families being torn apart through being sold and resold by slave masters. It had a polarizing reaction. Over 300,000 of the first edition was printed in spite of being banned in most of the American South!
Many Historians believe Uncle Tom s Cabin helped lay the groundwork for the American Civil War.
Synopsis
In Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriett Beecher Stowe, the title character Uncle Tom is a long-suffering slave, loyal to both his faith and his master. Presented with an opportunity to escape, he instead chooses to remain in slavery to avoid embarrassing his master. After being sold to a slave trader, Tom suffers brutal treatment and is eventually beaten to death for his refusal to betray his friends — made to represent an ideal of true Christianity. Enormously popular (it was the best-selling novel of the 19th century) and influential, it’s publication in 1852 was instrumental in bringing visibility to the cruel reality of slavery. In more recent years, it has come under considerable criticism for its portrayal of meekness and subservience and the phrase “Uncle Tom” is sometimes used as an epithet for someone seen as overly subservient.
Reviews
On Mar 31 2020, a reader said:
Excellent book to gain empathy and insight into the enslaved pathos, struggle and plight! This book presents well designed ideas to ennoble and elivate the human race as brothers, and sisters of a common God, and Father of us all.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Island First Editions
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1030
- Title
- Uncle Tom s Cabin,
- Author
- Harriet Beecher STOWE
- Format/Binding
- Leather bound hard cover
- Book Condition
- New New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition; First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- The Easton Press
- Place of Publication
- Norwalk, Connecticut
- Date Published
- 1979
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- slavory
- Size
- 10" x 7" 295 pages
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