Uncle Tom’s Cabin

By: Harriet Beecher Stowe

Photo: Front-Cover
Front-Cover
Title-Page
Chapter-1
Collection ID
PBK.006737
Type
Printed Book
Date
1852
Geography
London (England)
Language
English
Medium
Printed on Paper
Dimensions
7.7 × 5.3 × 1.4 in. (19.5 × 13.5 × 3.6 cm)
Exhibit Location
Not on View

This is one of the first London editions of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Originally published as a series of installments in the American abolitionist newspaper The National Era, the book sold more than one million copies in the United States and Europe during its first year in print. Stowe drew upon biblical themes and imagery throughout her narrative to condemn slavery as a moral atrocity. The novel would eventually go through dozens of editions in multiple languages. This copy is published in one volume with embossed gray cloth.

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