BEECHER STOWE Harriet - Uncle Tom's Cabin (1946)

Uncle Tom's cabin (Uncle Tom's cabin: or, Life among the lowly) is a novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe, published in episodes between 1851 and 1852 in the weekly newspaper The National Era, published in 1852 in Boston by John P. Jewett and Company.

The novel deals with the subject of black slaves living in the southern United States. The impetus for its writing was the passage of a law in 1850 by the U.S. Congress against the harboring of fugitive black slaves (Compromise of 1850). The book, revealing the violence and ruthlessness with which African-Americans were treated, became an important ideological argument of the liberal North in the fight to abolish slavery.

Published by Gebethner and Wolff, Warsaw 1946

Format: 190 x 135 mm, 256 pages.
Hardcover, original.

Good condition, cover soiling, rubbing, dampstain on back cover (no waviness), rubbing of cloth spine.