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Edited and with an Introduction and Notes by Dr Keith Carabine. University of Kent at Canterbury. Uncle Tom's Cabin is the most popular, influential and controversial book written by an American. Stowe s rich, panoramic novel passionately dramatises why the whole of America is implicated in... read more
Memorable Quotes
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“Mas'r Legree, as ye bought me, I'll be a true and faithful servant to ye. I'll give ye all the work of my hands, all my time, all my strength; but my soul I won't give up to mortal man. I will hold on the Lord, and put His commands before all--die or live; you may be sure on't.”
Tom -
“Yes, Mas'r, I'm willin' to work night and day, and work while there's life and breath in me; but this yer thing I can't fel it right to do; and, Mas'r, I never shall do it---never.”
Tom
First Sentence
LATE in the afternoon of a chilly day in February, two gentlemen were sitting alone over their wine, in a well-furnished dining parlor, in the town of P-, in Kentucky.
Table of Contents
1. In which the Reader is Introduced to a Man of Humanity
2. The Mother
3. The Husband and Father
4. An Evening in Uncle Tom's Cabin
5. Showing the Feelings of Living Property on Changing Owners
6. Discovery
7. The Mother's Struggle
8. Eliza's Escape
9. In which it Appears that a Senator is but a Man
10. The Property is Carried off
11. In which Property Gets into an Improper State of Mind
12. Select Incident of lawful Trade
13. The Quaker Settlement
14. Evangeline
15. Of Tom's new Master, and various other Matters
16. Tom's Mistress and her Opinions
17. The Free Man's Defence
18. Miss Ophelia's Experiences and Opinions
19. Miss Ophelia's Experiences and Opinions, continued
20. Topsy
21. Kentuck
22. 'The Grass Withereth - the Flower Fadeth'
23. Henrique
24. Foreshadowings
25. The Little Evangelist
26. Death
27. 'This is the Last of Earth'
28. Reunion
29. The Unprotected
30. The Slave Warehouse
31. The Middle Passage
32. Dark Places
33. Cassy
34. The Quadroon's Story
35. The Tokens
36. Emmeline and Cassy
37. Liberty
38. The Victory
39. The Stratagem
40. The Martyr
41. The Young Master
42. An Authentic Ghost Story
43. Results
44. The Liberator
45. Concluding Remarks
Authors & Contributors
- Harriet Beecher Stowe (Author)
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