About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Commentary (books not included). Pages: 55. Chapters: Novels dealing with slavery, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Gone with the Wind, Uncle Tom's Cabin, Oroonoko, Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ, Roots: The Saga of an American Family, Clotel, The Tripods, Beloved, Absalom, Absalom!, The Minister's Wooing, Isle of Canes, Sacred Hunger, Kindred, New Day, The Confessions of Nat Turner, Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp, Marie-Elena John, An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad's "Heart of Darkness," Boy's Next Door, Flash for Freedom!, Cloudsplitter, Spartacus, Middle Passage, Fire on the Mountain, The Restraint of Beasts, Amos Fortune, Free Man, Back to Life, The Known World, Unburnable, Ourika, If He Hollers Let Him Go, Jubilee, March, Walk Through Darkness, The Viceroy of Ouidah, A Escrava Isaura, Abeng, The Slave Dancer, I Am a Barbarian, Mr Midshipman Easy, Plan B, Mandingo, Race: The Reality of Human Difference, Sab, Time and the River, The Store, In the Sargasso Sea, True North. Excerpt: Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. Published in 1852, the novel "helped lay the groundwork for the Civil War," according to Will Kaufman. Stowe, a Connecticut-born teacher at the Hartford Female Academy and an active abolitionist, featured the character of Uncle Tom, a long-suffering black slave around whom the stories of other characters-both fellow slaves and slave owners-revolve. The sentimental novel depicts the reality of slavery while also asserting that Christian love can overcome something as destructive as enslavement of fellow human beings. Uncle Tom's Cabin was the best-selling novel of the 19th century, and the second best-selling book of that century, following the Bible. It is credited with helping fuel the abolitionist cause in the 1850s. In the first year af...
