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    Uncle Tom's Cabin
    Uncle Tom's Cabin
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    Uncle Tom's Cabin

    By Harriet Beecher Stowe

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    The Little Story that Started the Civil War
    “Any mind that is capable of a real sorrow is capable of good.” ― Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin
    Uncle Tom's Cabin; or Life Among the Lowly, is one of the most famous anti-slavery works of all time. Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel helped lay the foundation for the Civil War and was the best selling novel of the 19th century. While in recent years, the book's role in creating and reinforcing a number of stereotypes about African Americans, this novel's historical and literary impact should not be overlooked.
    This Xist Classics edition has been professionally formatted for e-readers with a linked table of contents. This eBook also contains a bonus book club leadership guide and discussion questions. We hope you’ll share this book with your friends, neighbors and colleagues and can’t wait to hear what you have to say about it.

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherXist Publishing
    Release dateMar 20, 2015
    ISBN9781623958411
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    Harriet Beecher Stowe

    Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811–1896) was an American abolitionist and author of more than 20 books, including novels, three travel memoirs, and collections of articles and letters. Her novel Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852) was a realistic account of life for African-Americans under slavery; it reached millions and became influential in the United States and United Kingdom.

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    • 5/5
      This book lies so heavy on my heart. There is one thing in our country's history that bothers me the most and that is slavery. This book was very hard for me to listen to. I can't wrap my mind around someone treating another person like dogs because of the color of their skin. There were many times that I wanted to smack several people for the things they said. I would like to believe if I had lived during times of slavery I would be one of the people who helped free slaves and stand up for their rights. I don't have time for hatred and it saddens me when people are abused.
    • 1/5
      Absolute trite garbage. One of the worst reading experiences I have experienced. This is religious sentimentality in its worst basest most soap-opera form. Pompous and self-aggrandizing. I would NOT recommend it to anyone unless you have to read it for your studies as a mandatory text.
    • 4/5
      A very interesting and informative description of dark times that most of us might prefer to go through life not 'knowing' but must learn about in detail not in a glossed over history book.
    • 1/5
      Important, yes; good, no.
    • 4/5
      Published in 1852 by Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin is an antislavery book. It is a story written in supplements like Dicken's wrote his stories and the stories of various characters revolve around Uncle Tom, a longsuffering, godly man. It was the best selling novel of the 19th century, second to the Bible. The characters can be called stereotypes and this book gets much criticism in this day and age. I read this after reading The Underground Railroad and am glad to have done so. What I liked in the story is that the author not only shows the evil of slavery in south she also shows the bigotry of the Northern people in their treatment of blacks. It is unfortunate to only criticize the book for its stereotypes and fail to acknowledge the impact of the book during the time in which it was written. Rating 3.85
    • 4/5
      Brutal and confronting portrait of American slavery.
    • 5/5
      This book is so overwhelming good, I just don't know what to say, other than, I wish I had read it earlier in my life, and I wish all United States citizens and residents were required to read this. The author's "Concluding Remarks" alone are powerful enough to bring the reader to tears, and the whole book makes one question man's inhumanity to man in one of the darkest chapters of this planet's history. I feel spent just from having read it. I can't imagine all the poor souls who had to go through this...
    • 2/5
      The books message is great. The bravery in addressing the subject deserves our praise, but the quality of writing is atrocious. Although one of the best selling books ever, there are good reasons it never gets on anyone's "best" lists. Although you might care about poor Tom by the end you'll sure be glad it's over.

      Chapeter 18 starts out "Our friend Tom, in his own simple musings." Change Tom to Harriet and it's a done deal.
    • 5/5
      I decided to read this as I am making my way through "Team of rivals" which is a biography of Abraham Lincoln. I was not sure what to expect but once I got used to the archaic language and the dialogue, I found this to be a very enlightening text. I found the author's story and characters to be very compelling. I also learned a great deal about the economics of the slave trade and the treatment of slaves at the hands of their masters. I expected the character of Tom to be obsequious and subservient, aiming to please to get ahead. Tom is a highly principled, very deeply religious person who has a positive impact on those around him. In particular, at his last home, he brings hope to his fellow slaves. The denouement has a happy ending for many of the main characters who find a happier life outside the US.I really enjoyed the book, the characters and the social commentary of this time in US history. if you have not read this, you should.I downloaded this from the Gutenberg library collection
    • 5/5
      Such a beautiful story. I adored the realism of the characters. Stowe did a wonderful job balancing out personalities. No race was glorified or demonized, nor were genders shown in disproportionate light; the first few chapters, all the women were nigh-on saints, but Mrs. St. Clare more than makes up for it (I wanted to strangle that b!tch. Even if it weren't for her views on slavery). I was a bit dismayed at the deus ex machina nature of the happily ever after (the reunions at the end), but I thoroughly enjoyed the "epilogues" and the end note.
    • 5/5
      Uncle Toms Cabin Character: Tom, The Shelbys, Eliza, Harry, Simon Legree, Topay, Ophelia, St. Clare, Tom LokerSetting: Planation in Kentucky Theme: Prejudices of the South and enduring faithGenre: Historical FictionSummary: The story begins on a planation in Kentucky where the family is having financial issues and have no other choice but to sell some of their slaves. Once Eliza finds out her son is one of the slaves they escape. She is soon met by her husband who had escaped some time before. The family is being hunted by a slave hurter who her husband pushed off a cliff only to leave him at a Quakers home nearby. The family makes it to Canada where they become freedmen. Other slaves on the planation are not so lucky. Tom is to be sold. He is sent on a riverboat to Mississippi. On his way he meets a young girl named Eva. Eva’s father Tom decides purchase Tom and take him to his planation in New Orleans. Eva grows sick and dies but before she does has a vision of heaven. Inspired by her death her father decides he is going to sent Tom free but is killed before he had the chance. Eva’s mother sells Tom to Simon Legree who beats him and tries to break his spirit because he refused to whip another slave. Tom is beaten by another slave and dies. Shortly after Tom’s death, George Shelby arrives to buy Tom’s freedom but he is too late. Cassy escapes and arrives in Canada where she discovers Eliza is her lost daughter who was sold as a child. Audience: Middle/High SchoolCurriculum ties: Slavery, Civil WarPersonal response: I believe this is a must read when studying slavery. It gives a clear picture of the life of a slave and the harsh treatment they endured. It also shows that not all slave owners are cruel. I believe this book could be used at all grade levels if excerpts are used and vocabulary is explained.
    • 4/5
      While hard to read at times (both due to the subject matter and the 19th-century prose), this book remains just as powerful as many readers found it upon first publication. Uncle Tom's Cabin traces the stories of several slaves as they navigate between masters, escape, freedom, daily toil, and faith. At the outset, Tom and another very young slave Harry are intended for sale to settle the debts of their master in Kentucky. Harry's mother Eliza discovers the plan and frantically runs away, braving the ice on the Ohio River to bring herself and her son to freedom. They are later joined by her husband George, while Tom is sold first to a kind master, then comes under the ownership of an abusive one. In each step of Tom and Eliza's journeys, they meet other slaves with tragic tales and white allies who maintain escape routes for runaway slaves. While slavery may be long past, this book remains a stark picture of how the United States once was and is still a powerful message about racism.
    • 2/5
      I am in the minority of readers, as I found this work overly simplistic and slow. While Stowe's political and social commentary is compelling, the outdated notions of the slaves is much akin to the equally inaccurate concepts of American Indians as "noble savages." In fact, the slaves, as all people, were more more complex, containing both admirable and deplorable traits.
    • 5/5
      At some points you will cry at other you will want to bash heads. It is a great read and I believe should be taught in high schools
    • 5/5
      It is reported that when President Abraham Lincoln met Harriet Beecher Stowe, he said, “So you’re the little lady who caused this big war.” Uncle Tom’s Cabin may not have caused the war, but it certainly stirred anti-slavery sentiments internationally. I first read it more than 30 years ago and remembered it only as a great story, a real page turner. Recently, while researching the concept of evil, there were two things that repeatedly appeared in my reading: the Holocaust and Uncle Tom’s Cabin. A re-reading was in order.Even though she furnished adequate proof that her characters were drawn from real life [see The Key to Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1854)], Stowe’s emotional presentation, typical of novels of the period, was distracting to me until, again, I was drawn into the story: a kind slaveowner finds himself in financial straits and must sell property to keep from losing everything. Rather than part with acreage, he sells his most valuable slave, Uncle Tom, along with Harry, the young son of his wife’s chamber maid Eliza. Thus, Tom is separated from his wife and children, and Eliza runs away in the night with little Harry. A key character is St. Clare, Uncle Tom’s new master, who assuages his guilt at being a slaveowner by indulging his human property and foregoing the whippings that are common among his peers. Indeed, he metes out no discipline at all. St. Clare’s petulant wife is capricious in her treatment of her servants. Their child Eva is a younger, Western version of Siddhartha. When her father attempts to shield her from the truth, she protests: “You want me to live so happy, and never to have pain,—never suffer anything,—not even hear a sad story when other poor creatures have nothing but pain and sorrow, all their lives,—it seems selfish.”Stowe uses her characters to deliver her orations on the causes and evils of slavery and how good people behave badly when society seems to demand it of them; or as St. Clare says, “It’s pretty generally understood that men don’t aspire after the absolute right, but only to do about as well as the rest of the world.” St. Clare, too, reflects Stowe’s thoughts on the profit motive behind slavery:"On this abstract question of slavery there can, as I think, be but one opinion. Planters, who have money to make by it,—clergymen, who have planters to please,—politicians, who want to rule by it,—may warp and bend language and ethics to a degree that shall astonish the world at their ingenuity; they can press nature and the Bible, and nobody knows what else, into the service." (p. 189)Mr. Shelby’s speeches present the case of the genteel, kind slaveowner; Mrs. Shelby’s speeches provide the practicing Christian viewpoint; and Uncle Tom and George Harris speak of the experience of being treated as a piece of property rather than a man. Other characters reflect the sentiments of the many voices that weigh in on the complex nature of slavery as an economic necessity.Thus the story I read years ago as an exciting bit of fiction, I now review as a powerful political statement. Knowing now, that even the individual characters, as well as the events, were literally taken from real life, the story has deeper meaning. I was struck by how often some speech or wisp of philosophy seemed hauntingly relevant to today’s society, where the closing of factories and downsizing of businesses do not send workers to the block to be sold, but rather leave them in a limbo, like freed slaves without the tools to make it in this new emerging society.
    • 4/5
      A great book on slavery, an educational book (read it when I was 12...)
    • 4/5
      Within a few pages I quickly understood why they aren't teaching this one in schools anymore. It's not nearly so bad as adaptations would have you believe, but yeah, it's bad. The author's heart was clearly in the right place, but several times she assigns blanket characteristics to an entire race. It's a fascinating historical artifact, but far from politically correct by today's standards. What's most engaging about reading it now is its perfect capturing of the voice of its times. It's difficult to fathom a world where slavery is the number one pressing political issue, but here it is in all its grimness. This is no great work of literature - the author's insertions, the staggering pacing, and the giant Christianity club can be wearing - but every bit worth a read for a chilling visit to a not-distant-enough past.
    • 3/5
      Propaganda as art: That is how Harriet Beecher Stowe has presented the story of slavery in the mid-19th century. There are times when Stowe beats you over the head with the message that slavery is an evil that should not survive in a "Christian world." There is a heavy dose of religion presented here, and Tom's faith is a powerful tool in his struggle and ultimately a transcendent virtue at the novel's climax.

      Some of Stowe's viewpoints are outdated, with a kind of "noble savage" perspective of blacks, whom she portrays as pitiful creatures at times. The final chapters are a bit overwrought, with a drawn out tying up of loose ends and a call for African nationalism, but not in America, which seems racist in today's society: "Set free the slaves and send them back to Africa rather than allow them to be equals in America." The final chapter is Stowe's final thesis against slavery, as she argues the authenticity of her characters and their lives.

      Despite its dated language and ideals, it remains a powerful argument against America's worst transgression. The plot moves along quickly, as you can tell it was first published episodically. There is a lot of action, and the plot only stalls for a few chapters here and there. Some of the scenes will make you cringe, and that's the point.

      Stowe leaves no one out of this book. Every character archetype is here: from meek and subservient slaves to the revolutionary firebrands, from the well-meaning slave owner to the brutal plantation master. Stowe addresses every man, woman and child in her treatise to end slavery. While today's reader must look beyond some of the content here, this novel remains one of the most important novels in U.S. history.
    • 5/5
      Now I know why it's a classic! This may be the best-written piece of persuasive writing I've ever read. The stories are so artfully told and the characters so endearing. It's not hard to see why the book could engender the passions it did. I never expected to like it, much less to be made an abolitionist in the reading.
    • 5/5
      Whatever your feelings about the characterizations in this book are, it is a true classic of literature. As a woman, Stowe had to please both herself and the male-dominated world she was writing for (both abolitionist and non-abolistionist), and she did so beautifully. Along with Gone With the Wind, the most important literary work of fiction concerning slavery. Pioignant in it's humany and rich in laguage, this is one of my favorite books. I can't believe I waited until I was in my 40s to read it, but I've read it twice now.
    • 1/5
      There are reasons I really wanted to like this book:

      *It is (or was) a classic
      *Its author is famously known as the person Abraham Lincoln jokingly credited with starting the American Civil War and, ergo, an end to slavery in the United States.
      *The principles and courage of the author to put herself out there and critique a nation, not just for its legislation, but the more insidious racism of many abolitionists, must have been tremendous.

      However, I found the act of ploughing through this novel to be one long exercise in patience. As someone who does not adhere to any religion, the endless passages about The Lord, quotes from the Bible, and descriptions of religious activity were increasingly tedious and I found myself skipping swathes of text just to get on with the story.

      Ah, the story... therein lies another problem. Having done a little more research since completing this book, I understand that Beecher Stowe originally wrote this as a series, published weekly in a paper. Therefore, the introduction to each chapter, which reminds 'our reader' who we are catching up with next and apologises to 'our reader' for not having had time to describe Mrs Such-and-Such last night with 'all the activity going on' became equally as wearing as the Bible-bashing after a few chapters. The other consequence of this approach means that Beecher Stowe introduced a plethora of new characters with each section. I ended up losing interest in 'meeting' yet another person because I couldn't get into any of the characters enough to care about them. The titular Uncle Tom is absent for more of the book than he is present and this makes it especially difficult to root for him by the time his story reaches its climax.

      The final chapters are ludicrous in their reliance on coincidence - at least Oscar Wilde made sure his tongue was firmly in his cheek during the reveal. The only aspect of the book I found interesting was the final word by the author, highlighting the plight of the slave to her Southern cousins and Northern friends. I would have been happy to read that part on its own and still come away with the same level of understanding about attitudes and issues at that time. Others have described the entire novel as reading more like an essay and I agree. Had Beecher Stowe not used such a clunky, preaching approach I am sure this would have continued to shine as an illuminating example of literature's powerful role in society. As it is, the author lacked the talent of her contemporary peers to create a wonderful narrative and the result, a century and a half later, is painfully dull.
    • 4/5
      Summary: Stowe blows the lid on slavery during the time when people were still insane enough to believe that it was an acceptable way of life.
    • 3/5
      3.5 stars.Uncle Tom's Cabin was written in 1852. Tom and Eliza are slaves owned by Mr. Shelby, who is a kind master and treats his slaves well. However, when he has money problems, he must sell a couple of them to a slave trader - Tom, and Eliza's young son Harry, are sold. The book follows Tom one direction after he is sold, and Eliza and Harry in another direction as they run to escape Harry's unknown fate once the trader sells him; they are trying to reach Canada. I was surprised that this was much easier to read than I expected. I don't normally like books written in the 19th century (at least the few that I've attempted to read), so I wasn't sure how this would go. I actually quite liked the book.
    • 5/5
      I read this in 8th grade and was duly taken by it. If I was not an abolitionist before I read it I certainly was one after I finished it.
    • 5/5
      Hauntlngly beautiful.I avoided reading this book for many years because I was afraid it would be too painful. Now that I have read it though, I regret that I waited so long.Uncle Tom's Cabin follows the story of Tom, a slave who has lived most of his life on a plantation with a kind master. He is much loved by the other slaves who call him "Uncle Tom". As the story begins we find that Tom his being sold so his master can cover some debts. Many other deeply rich characters are woven into the narrative, but the main character throughout is Tom.This book is known, rightly, for it's anti-slavery message, but it is much more than that. It is a story about the strength of the human spirit to survive the unthinkable and it's a story about faith in Christ. I am a Christian, and still I am in awe that the slaves could find and hold onto faith while living in slavery. Because of my own life experiences, I felt I could relate much better to Cassie (a female slave introduced late in the book, who is understandably angry and hardened by life.) Tom's faith and testimony moved me. Once in a while you find a book that leaves you a different person, a better person for having read it . . . Uncle Tom's Cabin did that for me.
    • 5/5
      I never knew that it was such a page turner! About halfway through the pace picked up so that I was avidly reading whenever I had a chance to see if George and Eliza would shake off their trackers, Uncle Tom would make it back to his family, what it would take to make Topsy reform and much more. How about that crazy Cassy, hmm? And poor Emmaline ... would someone save her before Simon Legree got his filthy hands on her? Wow!I never knew that Uncle Tom actually was a Christ-figure, a living saint. No wonder he is misunderstood by so many. They are not getting the whole picture.I never knew that so many sorts of people were represented throughout the book. The language can be rather stilted due to the style of the times but Stowe did a good job showing many different attitudes toward slavery and how people excused themselves under the flimsiest of excuses. One expects the broadly painted very good and very evil owners but not the more shaded in-between characters.It was fascinating toward the end of the book to see where many of the slaves wound up. One could discern what Stowe's ideas of a solution for the slavery problem were and, indeed, it was even more interesting to read her afterward where she discusses it specifically.I thought that Stowe included herself in the book as the maiden aunt from New England who thought she understood the problem until she came up against Topsy who demanded that she put her whole heart and soul into realizing that the slaves were real people. My daughter saw her as Mrs. Shelby, the kindly wife of Uncle Tom's original owner, who as soon as she got a chance absolutely did the right thing.
    • 5/5
      This book is very moving. I almost cried at parts. I really enjoyed it.
    • 5/5
      I have to admit that I only just read it for the first time. All I can say is that this book is amazing -- and that Harriet Beecher Stowe must have been a genius because of the way she manipulated the story to "preach" for her without preaching.
    • 5/5
      This is a re-read for me. It's one of my favorite pieces of American literature.Yes, I realize that there are many major problems with this book. It actually fairly drips with sentimentality. It's preachy. The characters are one-dimesional...either completely saintly and angelic or hideously villainous without a single redeeming quality. Not to mention the problem of racial stereotyping, and Tom's overt meekness and submisiveness to his masters and his situation. But I can't help but get caught up in this book. I care about the characters. And, in some respects, I see Uncle Tom as one of the strongest characters I've ever read, and I admire him. In spite of his apparent meekness and passivity, I think he displays incredible courage; incredible strength of character. Stowe's passion for the subject of abolition shows in this work. It drove this book, and it's that passion that speaks to me and draws me in.
    • 3/5
      Inflammatory to the extreme, but still an interesting, if heartbreaking story. Harriet Stowe wanted this used as a tool to end slavery. Whether it was effective or not is beyond my judgment, but I do know that it incited many to get involved in the antislavery movement. In many ways it is insufferably condescending, and naive, yet it should be read as one end of the extreme view.

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    Uncle Tom's Cabin - Harriet Beecher Stowe

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