Uncle Tom's cabin / Harriet Beecher Stowe ; edited with an introduction and notes by Jean Fagan Yellin.

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Labeled racist and condescending by some contemporary critics, this novel remains a shocking, controversial, and powerful work that exposes the attitudes of white 19th century society toward the institution of slavery. Uncle Tom's Cabin charts the progress from slavery to freedom of fugitives who es...

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Uniform Title:Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press)
Main Author: Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896
Corporate Author: NetLibrary, Inc
Other Authors: Yellin, Jean Fagan
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1998.
Series:Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press)
Subjects:
Plantation life > Fiction.
African Americans > Fiction.
Slavery > Fiction.
Enslaved persons > Fiction.
Southern States > Fiction.
Didactic fiction.
Political fiction.
Genre:
Fiction.
Didactic fiction.
Political fiction.
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Physical Description:xxxiv, 536 pages ; 20 cm.
Format: Electronic eBook
Contents:
  • Chronology of Harriet Beecher Stowe's life and work
  • Historical context of Uncle Tom's Cabin
  • Interpretive notes
  • Critical excerpts.