Uncle Tom's Cabin (Signet Classics) - Stowe, Harriet Beecher

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Uncle Tom's Cabin (Signet Classics) by Stowe, Harriet Beecher Format: Mass-Market PaperbackPublished by Signet, 2008 Uncle Tom's Cabin brought the evils of slavery to the conscienc es and hearts of the American people by its moving portrayal of slave experience. Harriet Beecher Stowe shows us in scenes of great dramatic power the human effects of an economic system in which slaves were property: the break up of families, the struggles for freedom, the horrors of plantation labor. She brings into fiction the different voices of the emerging American nation, the Southern slave-owning classes, Northern abolitionists, children, the sorrow songs and dialect of slaves, as well the language of political debate and religious zeal. The novel was, and is, controversial, abrasive in its demand for change, yet also brilliant in the deployment of dialogue, with great comic skill and a power of pathos that made it a runaway bestseller in its time that continues to move us today. Show more