Uncle Tom’s Cabin

An early, undated edition of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s classic from the mid to late 19th century. Uncle Tom’s Cabin was written to bring the individual agonies of slavery accusingly into the public eye by an avowed abolitionist. Its mixture of compassion and rage is so compelling that it was cited by Abraham Lincoln as a major catalyst of the civil war. Although the novel now comes under the banner of ‘historical fiction’, when it was published in 1852 it was simply ‘fiction’. As the author put it herself, “Of course, in a novel, people’s hearts break, and they die, and that is the end of it; and in a story this is very convenient. But in real life we do not die when all that makes life bright dies to us.” This hardback edition is in good condition, with slight foxing to the endpapers.

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