Uncle Tom’s Cabin Young Folks’ Edition by Harriet Beecher Stowe - Delphi Classics (Illustrated)

By Harriet Beecher Stowe

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• Language: English
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• Release date: Jul 17, 2017
• ISBN: 9781788775953

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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The Complete Works of

HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

VOLUME 2 OF 44

Uncle Tom’s Cabin Young Folks’ Edition

Parts Edition

By Delphi Classics, 2014

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‘Uncle Tom’s Cabin Young Folks’ Edition’

Harriet Beecher Stowe: Parts Edition (in 44 parts)

First published in the United Kingdom in 2017 by Delphi Classics.

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HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

IN 44 VOLUMES

Parts Edition Contents

The Novels

1, Uncle Tom’s Cabin Or, Life Among the Lowly

2, Uncle Tom’s Cabin Young Folks’ Edition

3, Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp

4, The Minister’s Wooing

5, Agnes of Sorrento

6, The Pearl of Orr’s Island

7, Oldtown Folks

8, My Wife and I

9, Pink and White Tyranny

10, We and Our Neighbors

11, Six of One by Half a Dozen of the Other

12, Poganuc People: Their Loves and Lives

The Short Story Collections

13, Four Ways of Observing the Sabbath and Other Religious Sketches

14, Uncle Sam’s Emancipation; Earthly Care a Heavenly Discipline; and Other Sketches

15, The May Flower, and Miscellaneous Writings

16, Our Charley and What to Do with Him

17, Sojourner Truth, the Libyan Sibyl

18, Little Foxes; Or, the Little Failings that Mar Domestic Happiness

19, Queer Little People

20, Sam Lawson’s Oldtown Fireside Stories

21, He’s Coming Tomorrow

22, Betty’s Bright Idea and Other Stories

23, The Daisy’s First Winter and Other Stories

24, A Dog’s Mission; Or, the Story of the Old Avery House, and Other Stories

25, Little Pussy Willow and the Minister’s Watermelons

26, Nelly’s Heroics with Other Heroic Stories

27, Household Papers and Stories

28, Hum, the Son of Buz and Other Stories

29, Uncollected Stories

The Poetry

30, Religious Poems

The Non-Fiction

31, A Key to Uncle Tom’s Cabin

32, Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands

33, Lady Byron Vindicated

34, Palmetto-Leaves

35, American Woman’s Home: Or, Principles of Domestic Science

36, Preface to ‘The Garies and Their Friends’ by Frank J. Webb

37, The Salem Witchcraft and Other Works

38, Immortality: A Sermon

The Criticism

39, The Criticism

The Biographies

40, Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe by Charles Edward Stowe

41, Days with Mrs. Stowe by Annie Fields

42, Harriet Beecher Stowe; John Brown: The Conflict Precipitated by Newell Dwight Hillis

43, Days with Mrs. Stowe by Annie Fields

44, Harriet Beecher Stowe by Seth Curtis Beach

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Uncle Tom’s Cabin Young Folks’ Edition

CONTENTS

CHAPTER I

CHAPTER II

CHAPTER III

CHAPTER IV

CHAPTER V

CHAPTER VI

CHAPTER VII

CHAPTER VIII

CHAPTER IX

CHAPTER X

CHAPTER XII

CHAPTER XIII

CHAPTER XIV

CHAPTER XV

CHAPTER XVI

CHAPTER XVII

CHAPTER XVIII

CHAPTER XIX

CHAPTER XX

CHAPTER I

UNCLE TOM AND LITTLE HARRY ARE SOLD

VERY many years ago, instead of having servants to wait upon them and work for them, people used to have slaves. These slaves were paid no wages. Their masters gave them only food and clothes in return for their work.

When any one wanted servants he went to market to buy them, just as nowadays we buy horses and cows, or even tables and chairs.

If the poor slaves were bought by kind people they would be quite happy. Then they would work willingly for their masters and mistresses, and even love them. But very often cruel people bought slaves. These cruel people used to beat them and be unkind to them in many other ways.

It was very wicked to buy and sell human beings as if they were cattle. Yet Christian people did it, and many who were good and kind otherwise thought there was no wrong in being cruel to their poor slaves. ‘They are only black people,’ they said to themselves. ‘Black people do not feel things as we do.’ That was not kind, as black people suffer pain just in the same way as white