The Annotated Uncle Tom's Cabin.(Book review)

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From: Black Issues Book Review
Date: 20070101
Author:Carson, Warren J.

The Annotated Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe Edited by Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Hollis Robbins

W.W. Norton & Company, November 2006 $39.95, ISBN 0-393-05946-4 Significant books lend themselves to revisitation and revision on numerous, successive occasions. Such is the case with Henry Louis Gates's annotated edition of Harriet Beecher Stowe's time-worn and time-honored Uncle Tom's Cabin, initially published in 1852 and, if we take President Abraham Lincoln seriously, one of the things that propelled the United States into the Civil War. The chief reason Gates ...

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