Uncle Tom's Cabin  -  Harriet Beecher Stowe

Or Negro Life in the Slave States of America

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Although the American anti-slavery movement had existed at least as long as the nation itself, Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852) galvanized public opinion as nothing had before. The book sold 10,000 copies in its first week and 300,000 in its first year. Its vivid dramatization of slavery's cruelties so aroused readers that is said that Abraham Lincoln told Stowe her work had been a catalyst for the Civil War.

Today the novel is often labeled condescending, but its characters still have the power to move our ...
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2002 1x BEKROOND Uitgever: Wordsworth Editions 480 paginas Taal: Engels Grootte:  34x120x189 ISBN-10: 1840224029 ISBN-13: 9781840224023
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