Books by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Uncle Tom's Cabin brought the realities of slavery into the nineteenth-century American home. This title offers various appendices that clarify the novel's participation in antebellum debates about domesticity, colonization, abolitionism, and the law, and includes a section on dramatic adaptations of the novel.

The most controversial antislavery novel written in antebellum America, and a best-seller of the 19th century, this novel is credited with intensifying sectional conflict leading to the Civil War. In his introduction, Bromwich places the book in its Victorian contexts and reminds us why it is an enduring work of literary and moral imagination.

`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.

Published in 1851, Harriet Beecher-Stowe's novel rapidly became world-famous and remained so. A didactic and sentimental drama set among the slaves of the American South, Uncle Tom's Cabin is nevertheless a lively and forceful story. Given the history of race relations in our time it remains relevant even today.

Da Arthur Shelby og hans familie står over for at miste deres gård, beslutter han sig for at sælge to slaver til en slavehandler for at kunne betale sin gæld. Onkel Tom, en midaldrende familiefar og nær ven af Arthurs søn, er en af dem. Den anden slave, Harry, flygter med sin mor i ly af natten for at nå til Canada, hvor de kan leve som frie mennesker sammen med Harrys far, der tidligere er stukket af. De to flygtninge jages gennem landet af en utrættelig og nådesløs slavejæger, og imens forsøger Onkel Tom at overleve i sine nye omgivelser adskilt fra sin familie.Da Harriet Beecher Stowes roman "Onkel Toms hytte" udkom i 1852, lød der et ramaskrig fra de amerikanske sydstater, hvor slaveriet stadig blev set som en naturlig og uundværlig foranstaltning. Mange mener, at romanen, der blev solgt i enorme oplag, var med til at fremprovokere den amerikanske borgerkrig, hvor der blev gjort op med slaveriet én gang for alle.Den amerikanske forfatter Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896) var en stor forkæmper for slaveriets ophævelse, og hendes roman "Onkel Toms hytte" fra 1852 spillede en stor rolle i optakten til den amerikanske borgerkrig, som resulterede i, at slaveriet endeligt blev ophævet. Harriet Beecher Stowe skrev i alt 30 bøger, og hun har både som forfatter og offentlig debattør haft en stor indflydelse på det amerikanske samfund.