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UNCLE TOM'S CABIN

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From: Herizons
Date: 20070101
Author:Kauder, Stacey

Feminist Classics

UNCLE TOM'S CABIN

Harriet Beecher Stowe

PENGUIN CLASSICS

(Originally published in 1852, Jewett, Proctor, and Worthington) Review by Stacey Kauder

Harriet Beecher Stowe was already writing for small magazines when she was impelled to document the anti-slavery sentiments of her Christian friends and give voice to the unbelievable horrors and effects of slavery "that will make this whole nation feel what an accursed thing slavery is."

Uncle Tom's Cabin is the story of the flight for freedom for Eliza and George Harris and their child across the Ohio River into Canada. It is ...

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