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Uncle Tom's Cabin

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Uncle Tom’s Cabin

highly effective, sentimental Abolitionist novel. [Am. Lit.: Jameson, 513]
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"Uncle Tom's Cabin and Conventional Nineteenth-Century Domestic Ideology." Approaches to Teaching Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin, edited by Elizabeth Ammons and Susan Belasco, The Modern Language Association of America, 2000, pp.
In our opinion, writing a comprehensive history of the reception of Uncle Tom's Cabin is not a feasible task.
Consider, as well, the famous stanza from Julia Ward Howe's "Battle Hymn of the American Republic," written in 1862, which cast the Civil War as a redemptive crusade to end slavery in America: "As He died to make men holy, let us die to make men free." In the same vein, Stowe's poem "Caste and Christ", published alongside Uncle Tom's Cabin, concluded:
In Chapter 4, "Local Color and the Literary Imagination: Uncle Tom's Cabin and Le Vieux Salomon," the author attempts to compare the two novels in the chapter title in order to show, ostensibly, how Testut inserted local color into his works.
The Norton Critical Edition of Uncle Tom's Cabin. Edited by Elizabeth Ammons.
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To impress visiting dignitaries, the palace puts on an Asian-style opera based around the anti-slavery story of Uncle Tom's Cabin. It's an unexpected gem.
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