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Uncle Tom's Cabin (Paperback)
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Uncle Tom's Cabin (Paperback)
Series: Oxford World's Classics
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`So you're the little woman who wrote the book that started this
great war!' These words, said to have been uttered by Abraham
Lincoln, signal the celebrity of Uncle Tom's Cabin. The first
American novel to become an international best-seller, Stowe's
novel charts the progress from slavery to freedom of fugitives who
escape the chains of American chattel slavery, and of a martyr who
transcends all earthly ties. At the middle of the
nineteenth-century, the names of its characters - Little Eva,
Topsy, Uncle Tom - were renowned. A hundred years later, `Uncle
Tom' still had meaning, but, to Blacks everywhere it had become a
curse. This edition firmly locates Uncle Tom's Cabin within the
context of African-American writing, the issues of race and the
role of women. Its appendices include the most important
contemporary African-American literary responses to the
glorification of Uncle Tom's Christian resignation as well as
excerpts from popular slave narratives, quoted by Stowe in her
justification of the dramatization of slavery, Key to Uncles Tom's
Cabin. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics
has made available the widest range of literature from around the
globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to
scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of
other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading
authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date
bibliographies for further study, and much more.
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