Uncle Tom's Cabin

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Published by Houghton Mifflin and Co., Boston and New York, 1890

About this Item

Condition: Very Good.Green cloth boards with black lettering / illustration. Spine top presents title in gilt background.Shelf wear/bumping at board edges and spine. Minor aging/water marks. A beautiful 100+ year old copy of a novel that brought the subject of abolition and slavery to the forefront of discussion in nearly every country in the world. Harriet Beecher Stowe, (1811-1896) a Congregationalist minister, was committed to speaking out against slavery. "Uncle Tom's Cabin" is considered one of the most significant novels of the nineteenth century and Harriet Beecher Stowe's most famous work. It became a national best seller with 300,000 copies sold in the U.S in the first year. The abolitionist movement in the United States and in Europe (to end serfdom) intensified as this book's circulation grew. The 1890 New Edition includes an introductory of the account of the work by the author. Letters from around the world poured in from readers. Among those letters Florence Nightingale, His Royal Highness Prince Albert and a governess of the children of the King of Siam wrote to Stowe after reading her book. Those still in defense of slavery that had been discrediting the book as as insincere account of slave owners treatment to their "property"(slaves), Stowe wrote a second book showing written narratives by freed slaves that spoke of first hand accounts of the horrors of slavery, one of those narratives being from Fredrick Douglass himself. A book written before the Civil War that began a world momentum. A true collectable. Seller Inventory # ABE-1608503675466

Bibliographic Details

Title: Uncle Tom's Cabin

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin and Co., Boston and New York

Publication Date: 1890

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket