{"title":"Harriet Beecher Stowe","description":"Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896) was born in Litchfield, Connecticut, daughter of the Reverend Lyman Beecher of the local Congregational Church. In 1832, the family moved to Cincinnati, where Harriet married Calvin Ellis Stowe, a professor at the seminary, in 1836. The border town of Cincinnati was alive with abolitionist conflict, and there Mrs. Stowe took an active part in community life. She came into contact with fugitive slaves and learned from friends and from personal visits what life was like for the African-American in the South. In 1850, the Fugitive Slave Law was passed, and that same year Harriet's sister-in-law urged the author to put her feelings about the evils of slavery into words. Uncle Tom's Cabin was published serially from 1851 to 1852 in The National Era and as a book in 1852. More than 300,000 copies of the novel were sold in one year. Mrs. Stowe continued to write, publishing eleven other novels and numerous articles before her death at the age of eighty-five in Hartford, Connecticut.","products":[{"product_id":"uncle-toms-cabin-paperback","title":"Uncle Tom's Cabin - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eUncle Tom's Cabin was the first American novel to sell over a million copies. By calling attention to the issue of slavery, it has become a part of our country's literary and historical heritage.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn a nation divided on the slavery question, 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' had the profound effect of defining and calling dramatic attention to the issues involved. Though a century had passed since the novel's first publication, 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' is curiously undated, surprisingly sophisticated, deeply moving.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50101547303135,"sku":"9780060806187","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/yPTqbSr2uL9780060806187.webp?v=1781071699"},{"product_id":"uncle-toms-cabin-paperback-1","title":"Uncle Tom's Cabin - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHarriet Beecher Stowe's timeless and moving novel, an incendiary work that fanned the embers of the struggle between free and slave states into the fire of the Civil War.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ci\u003eUncle Tom's Cabin\u003c\/i\u003e is the story of the slave Tom. Devout and loyal, he is sold and sent down south, where he endures brutal treatment at the hands of the degenerate plantation owner Simon Legree. By exposing the extreme cruelties of slavery, Stowe explores society's failures and asks a profound question: \"What is it to be a moral human being?\" And as the novel that helped to move a nation to battle, \u003ci\u003eUncle Tom's Cabin\u003c\/i\u003e is an essential part of the collective experience of the American people.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eWith an Introduction by Darryl Pinckney \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eand an Afterword by Jonathan Arac\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50101578793183,"sku":"9780451530806","price":6.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/RDRQMGE0Q1NLZnFWTE01emtPZDNvUT09.webp?v=1781071759"},{"product_id":"uncle-toms-cabin-paperback-2","title":"Uncle Tom's Cabin - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eUncle Tom, Topsy, Sambo, Simon Legree, little Eva: their names are American bywords, and all of them are characters in Harriet Beecher Stowe's remarkable novel of the pre-Civil War South. \u003ci\u003eUncle Tom's Cabin\u003c\/i\u003e was revolutionary in 1852 for its passionate indictment of slavery and for its presentation of Tom, \"a man of humanity,\" as the first black hero in American fiction. Labeled racist and condescending by some contemporary critics, it remains a shocking, controversial, and powerful work -- exposing the attitudes of white nineteenth-century society toward \"the peculiar institution\" and documenting, in heartrending detail, the tragic breakup of black Kentucky families \"sold down the river.\" An immediate international sensation, \u003ci\u003eUncle Tom's Cabin\u003c\/i\u003e sold 300,000 copies in the first year, was translated into thirty-seven languages, and has never gone out of print: its political impact was immense, its emotional influence immeasurable.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eUncle Tom, Topsy, Sambo, Simon Legree, little Eva: their names are American bywords, and all of them are characters in Harriet Beecher Stowe's remarkable novel of the pre-Civil War South. \"Uncle Tom's Cabin was revolutionary in 1852 for its passionate indictment of slavery and for its presentation of Tom, \"a man of humanity,\" as the first black hero in American fiction. 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