Book Description
In the nineteenth century Uncle Tom's Cabin sold more copies than any other book in the world except the Bible.
Author : Harriet Beecher Stowe
Publisher :
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 40,22 MB
Release : 1901
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
In the nineteenth century Uncle Tom's Cabin sold more copies than any other book in the world except the Bible.
Author : Josiah Henson
Publisher : Boston : J.P. Jewett ; Cleveland : H.P.B. Jewett
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 47,15 MB
Release : 1858
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
Author : Mary H. Eastman
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 47,97 MB
Release : 2022-05-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
This book is a plantation fiction novel. It was a strong commercial success and bestseller. Based on her growing up in Warrenton, Virginia, of an elite planter family, Eastman portrays plantation owners and slaves as mutually respectful, kind, and happy beings.
Author : Tracy C. Davis
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 34,25 MB
Release : 2018-03-06
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0472037080
As Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin traveled around the world, it was molded by the imaginations and needs of international audiences. For over 150 years it has been coopted for a dazzling array of causes far from what its author envisioned. This book tells thirteen variants of Uncle Tom’s journey, explicating the novel’s significance for Canadian abolitionists and the Liberian political elite that constituted the runaway characters’ landing points; nineteenth-century French theatergoers; liberal Cuban, Romanian, and Spanish intellectuals and social reformers; Dutch colonizers and Filipino nationalists in Southeast Asia; Eastern European Cold War communists; Muslim readers and spectators in the Middle East; Brazilian television audiences; and twentieth-century German holidaymakers. Throughout these encounters, Stowe’s story of American slavery serves as a paradigm for understanding oppression, selectively and strategically refracting the African American slave onto other iconic victims and freedom fighters. The book brings together performance historians, literary critics, and media theorists to demonstrate how the myriad cultural and political effects of Stowe’s enduring story has transformed it into a global metanarrative with national, regional, and local specificity.
Author : Josiah Henson
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 41,2 MB
Release : 2017-02-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1365769763
Josiah Henson (June 15, 1789 - May 5, 1883) was an author, abolitionist, and minister. Born into slavery in Charles County, Maryland, he escaped to Upper Canada (now Ontario) in 1830, and founded a settlement and laborer's school for other fugitive slaves at Dawn, near Dresden in Kent County. Henson's autobiography, The Life of Josiah Henson, Formerly a Slave, Now an Inhabitant of Canada, as Narrated by Himself (1849), is widely believed to have inspired the character of the fugitive slave, George Harris, in Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852).
Author : John W. Frick
Publisher : Springer
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 34,28 MB
Release : 2016-04-30
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1137566450
No play in the history of the American Stage has been as ubiquitous and as widely viewed as Uncle Tom's Cabin . This book traces the major dramatizations of Stowe's classic from its inception in 1852 through modern versions on film. Frick introduce the reader to the artists who created the plays and productions that created theatre history.
Author : Harriet Beecher Stowe
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
Page : 57 pages
File Size : 37,67 MB
Release : 2020-09-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1465609784
The purpose of the Editor of this little Work, has been to adapt it for the juvenile family circle. The verses have accordingly been written by the Authoress for the capacity of the youngest readers, and have been printed in a large bold type. The prose parts of the book, which are well suited for being read aloud in the family circle, are printed in a smaller type, and it is presumed that in these our younger friends will claim the assistance of their older brothers or sisters, or appeal to the ready aid of their mamma.
Author : David S Reynolds
Publisher : WW Norton
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,25 MB
Release : 2012-06-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780393342352
“Fascinating . . . a lively and perceptive cultural history.” —Annette Gordon-Reed, The New Yorker In this wide-ranging, brilliantly researched work, David S. Reynolds traces the factors that made Uncle Tom’s Cabin the most influential novel ever written by an American. Upon its 1852 publication, the novel’s vivid depiction of slavery polarized its American readership, ultimately widening the rift that led to the Civil War. Reynolds also charts the novel’s afterlife—including its adaptation into plays, films, and consumer goods—revealing its lasting impact on American entertainment, advertising, and race relations.
Author : Harriet Beecher Stowe
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 19,78 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780393059465
Presents an annotated version of Harriet Beecher Stowe's classic novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin" that describes the lives of slaves and abolitionists in the 1800s, historical discussions of the Underground Railroad, slave trade, and plantation life, and advertisements that were influenced by the novel.
Author : Bruce Wydick
Publisher : Thomas Nelson
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 34,43 MB
Release : 2019-07-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780785221524
If we want to genuinely help people living in poverty rather than just feel good about believing we've helped, we are not meant to be just Good Samaritans. We must be Shrewd Samaritans.