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Uncle Tom's cabin / Harriet Beecher Stowe ; with an introduction by James M. McPherson ; [notes and chronology, Kathryn Kish Sklar].

Title
Uncle Tom's cabin / Harriet Beecher Stowe ; with an introduction by James M. McPherson ; [notes and chronology, Kathryn Kish Sklar].
Author
Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896
Publication
New York : Library of America : Distributed to the trade in the U.S. by Penguin Group, 2010, c1991.

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Additional Authors
  • McPherson, James M.
  • Sklar, Kathryn Kish
Description
xx, 529 p. : ill.; 21 cm.
Summary
A slave, whose child is to be sold, escapes her beloved home on the Shelby plantation in Kentucky and heads north, eluding the hired slave catchers. Aided by the Underground Railroad, Quakers and others opposed to the Fugitive Slave Act, Eliza, her son and husband run towards Canada.
Series Statement
Library of America paperback classics
Uniform Title
Library of America paperback classics
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • Political fiction
  • Didactic fiction
  • Fiction
  • Fiction.
  • Political fiction.
Note
  • Originally published: New York : Vintage Books/Library of America, 1991.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Introduction / James M. McPherson -- Uncle Tom's Cabin -- Chronology -- Note on the text -- Notes.
ISBN
  • 9781598530865 (pbk.)
  • 1598530860 (pbk.)
LCCN
^^2010927102
OCLC
  • 548596940
  • SCSB-12132351
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library