1910 Uncle Tom's Cabin H. B. Stowe Illustrated Black African American Slavery

Description: Uncle Tom's Cabin Or, Life Among The Lowly By Harriet Beecher Stowe Illustrated Published By R. F. Fenno &Company New York circa 1910 The title-page is undated. There is an old ink inscription on the front endpaper, dated May 7, 1910. Antique hardcover. Decorated cloth binding. 5.5" x 8.25" ( 9 ) + 467 pages. Over 113 years old. Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896). The book which President Abraham Lincoln himself said started the American Civil War ; a novel which examines the lives and living conditions of black African slaves in the American South in the time prior to the Civil War . -------- Condition. Some wear to the binding. There is a small dent at the edge of the spine-edge of the back cover. ( see the photos ) The hinges are tight No markings. Front endpaper inscription dated May 7, 1910. No other writing. Two pages have a small ( 1" ) tear in the outer margin. The pages otherwise in very good condition. -------------- An international bestseller that sold more than 300,000 copies when it first appeared in 1852, " Uncle Tom's Cabin " was dismissed by some as abolitionist propaganda ; yet Tolstoy deemed it a great work of literature "flowing from love of God and man." Today Harriet Beecher Stowe's stirring indictment of slavery is often confused with garish dramatizations that flourished for decades after the Civil War - productions that relied heavily on melodramatic simplifications of character totally alien to the original. Thus "Uncle Tom" has become a pejorative term for a subservient black , whereas Uncle Tom in the book is a man who, under the most inhumane of circumstances, never loses his human dignity. Uncle Tom's Cabin is the most powerful and most enduring work of art ever written about American slavery," said Alfred Kazin. This book created such a controversy that when Harriet Beecher Stowe was introduced to President Abraham Lincoln in 1862, he is said to have greeted her with the words: "So you are the little woman who wrote the book that started this great war!" Eliza Harris, a slave whose child is to be sold, escapes her beloved home on the Shelby plantation in Kentucky and heads North, eludes the hired slave catchers and is aided by the underground railroad. Another slave, Uncle Tom, is sent "down the river" for sale and ultimately endures a martyr's death under the whips of Simon Legree's overseers. This is a classic must-read of American Literature. Carefully packed for shipment to the buyer.

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