Uncle Tom’s Cabin

In tile nineteenth century Uncle Tom's, Cabirz sold more copies than any, book in the world except the Bible. It was quickly translated into thirty-seven languages and has never gone out of print. The book had far-reaching impact and deeply affected the national conscience of antebellum America. The Norton Critical Edition text is that of the 1852 book edition, published in two volumes by John P. Jewett and Company Boston; all original illustra-tions are included. Annotations are provided to assist the reader with ob-scure historical tcrms and biblical references.
"Backgrounds and Contexts" includes a wealth of historical documentation dealing with the issues of slaveU and abolitionism. Among the documents are Josiah Henson's 1849 slave narrative (named by Stowe as one of her sources for the novel), Solomon Northup's eyewitness account of an 184] slave auction, Harriet Jacobs's narrative of'her life as a fifteen-year-old slave, two epistolary accounts by ex-slave and abolitionist William Wells Brown that document events in Uncle Tom's Cabin, two crucial excerpts from Stowc's Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin that provide the real-life basis for characters and events in the novel, and accounts of 'Ibm-Shows and the anti Uncle Tom literature that sprang up in response to the novel's publica-tion. Illustrative material includes slavc advertisements; runaway slave posters; illustrations for the first British edilion of Uncle Tom's Cabin by Britain's premier illustrator, George Cruikshank;as well as popular illustra- tions from American editions of the novel
"Criticism" is arranged under two headings: "Nineteenth-Century Re-views and Reception" includes critiques by George Sand, William G. Allen and Ethiop (both from Frederick Douglass' PaFer), George F. Itolmes, and Paul Laurence Dunbar, among others. "Twentieth-Century Criticism" col- lects five of the best essays written on the novel in this century; they are by James Baldwin, Jane P. Tompkins, Bobert S. Levinc, Hortense I. Spillers, and Christina Zwarg.
A Chronology of Stowe's life and work and a Selected Bibliography are also included.

Book Description
First published in serial form in 1851-52, this text is based on the edition published as a book later in 1852. The backgrounds section covers the Fugitive Slave Act and the ideals of the abolitionists, and the contemporary criticism section gives an indication of the huge acclaim that greeted the novel's publication.

This edition is based on the book published in 1852. The background section covers the Fugitive Slave Act and the ideals of the abolitionists, and the contemporary criticism section gives an indication of the huge acclaim that greeted the novel's publication.

Book Dimension:
length: (cm)21.2 　　　 　　　　　 　 width:(cm)13.1

Preface
A Note on the Text
Acknowledgments
The Text of Uncle Tom's Cabin
First-edition title page
Preface
Table of Contents
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Backgrounds and Contexts
Map: The Eastern United States in the Antebellum Period
Slave Sale Announcements
Runaway Slave Advertisements
Josiah Henson·Life of Josiah Henson
Solomon Northup·A Slave Auction Described by a Slave, 184i
Harriet Jacobs·The Trials of Girlhood
William Wells Brown·Another Kidnapping, 1844
The Flight of Ellen and William Craft, 1849
Harriet Beecher Stowe·[Letter to the Abolitionist Eliza Cabot Follen]
From The Key to "Uncle Tom's Cabin"
Uncle Tom
The Execution of Justice
Appeal to the Women of the Free States
George M. Fredrickson·Uncle Tom and the Anglo-Saxons Romantic Racialism in the North
George Cruikshank·Illustration: Tom reading his Bible.
Illustration: The poor bleeding heart.
Illustration: Emmeline about to be sold to the highest bidder.
Tholnas F. Gossett·Anti-Uncle Tom Literature
Mary C. Henderson·[Tom-Shows]
Tom-Show Poster
Criticism
NINETEENTH-CENTURY REVIEWS AND RECEPTION
George Sand·Review of Uncle Tom's Cabin
William G. Allen·[About Uncle Tom's Cabin]
Ethiop·[Review of Uncle Tom's Cabin]
George F. Holmes·[Review of Uncle Tom's Cabin]
Anonymous ·[Review of Uncle Tom's Cabin]
Charles Dudley Warner·[Uncle Tom's Cabin a Half Century Later]
Frances Ellen Watkins [Harper]·Eliza Harris
Helen Gray Cone·[Harriet Beecher Stowe and American Women Writers]
Paul Laurence Dunbar·Harriet Beecher Stowe
G. Grant Williams·Reminiscences of the Life of Harriet Beecber Stowe and Her Family
MODERN CRITICAL VIEWS
[ames Baldwin·Everybody's Protest Novel
Jane P. Tompkins·Sentimental Power: Uncle Tom's Cabin and the Politics of Literary History
Robert S. Levine·Uncle Tom's Cabin in Frederick Douglass
Paper: An Analysis of Reception
Hortense J. Spillers - Changing the Letter: The Yokes, the Jokes of Discourse, or, Mrs. Stowe, Mr. Reed
Christina Zwarg·Fathering and Blackface in Uncle Tom's Cabin
Harriet Beecher Stowe:A Chronology
Selected Bibliography