Harriet Beecher Stowe

Uncle Tom's Cabin is a novel written by Harriet Beecher Stowe and published in 1852. The book tells the story of a slave named Tom who is sold from his Kentucky plantation to a new owner in Louisiana. Along the way, he meets other slaves and witnesses the brutal realities of slavery in the United States. The novel also follows the lives of other characters, including Eliza, a slave who escapes with her child, and George, a slave who also escapes but then returns to rescue his wife and family. The book portrays the harsh conditions and violence of slavery, as well as the emotional toll it takes on both slaves and slave owners. Uncle Tom's Cabin was a groundbreaking work of fiction that helped to fuel the abolitionist movement in the United States. It is credited with helping to change public opinion about slavery and is considered one of the most influential books in American history. Despite its impact, the book has also been criticized for perpetuating stereotypes about African Americans and for its portrayal of Uncle Tom, a character who has become synonymous with subservience and passivity. This Is A New Release Of The Original 1852 Edition. This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.

Two years after the publication ofUncle Tom s Cabin brought Harriet Beecher Stowe widespread acclaim, Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands was published in two volumes in 1854. This book, which was a memoir of her travels in England, Scotland, France, Switzerland, and The Rhine, includes 49 letters from Mrs. Stowe to her friends, as well as a journal from Stowe s brother, Reverend C. Beecher. The work is an admirable one; conceived in a wholesome spirit, written with a genial pen, and literally overflowing with brilliant flashes of poetry and humor. One of the principle charms of Mrs. Stowe s book is that it is genuine throughout written in the first impulse of the moment, and for a circle of private friends, not for a censorious public. With her genius, humanizing instincts, and sound common sense, she is to America what Dickens is to England, and will, we doubt not, be equally industrious, philanthropic and sincere in all she does." fromThe New York Times, August 1, 1854"

Et enestående verk! For første gang på 125 år foreligger Onkel Toms hytte i komplett oversettelse på norsk. Romanen, som for første gang ble utgitt i USA i 1852, er et sterkt eksempel på hvordan skjønnlitteratur kan være med på å forandre et helt samfunn. At 300 000 eksemplarer av boken ble revet bort i løpet av det første året, skyldtes ikke ene og alene at leserne her ble presentert for en spennende historie; vel så viktig - om ikke viktigere - var Stowes politiske og kristenhumanistiske budskap: Sett slavene fri! Stowe hadde særdeles gode kunnskaper om slavenes kår, hun visste hvordan slavehandelen foregikk, og hun forstod at noe måtte gjøres for å vekke den hvite delen av befolkningen. - Og hun lyktes. Fortellingen om Onkel Tom gjorde en forskjell, og ved borgerkrigens slutt skal Abraham Lincoln ha uttalt at romanen hadde vært en svært viktig inspirasjonskilde for kampen mot slaveriet. På sett og vis er romanen like aktuell i dag som den var på 1850-tallet. Hvordan behandler Vesten flyktninger og såkalt papirløse? Hvem er vår tids Onkel Tom, og hva kan vi lære av hans historie?

Acosado por las deudas, Mr. Shelby, due o de plantaciones en Kentucky, debe desprenderse de varios de sus esclavos, entre ellos Elisa, que al enterarse de que su hijo ser entregado a un traficante, huye con el peque o hacia el Canad , en donde se encontrar con su esposo, esclavo en una plantaci n vecina, que tambi n se ha fugado. Como el t o Tom, el m s apreciado entre los esclavos, no quiso huir, separado de su mujer y de sus hijos, termina en manos de un plantador brutal y borracho, que lo flagela brutalmente, hasta la muerte, porque se niega a revelarle la pista de dos esclavas fugitivas. Escrito a mediados del siglo XIX, en plena poca de convulsi n esclavista, La caba a del t o Tom sigue teniendo vigencia porque constituye un alegato a favor de uno de los valores eternos de la humanidad: la libertad.

Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly, is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. Published in 1852, the novel "helped lay the groundwork for the Civil War", according to Will Kaufman. Stowe, a Connecticut-born teacher at the Hartford Female Academy and an active abolitionist, featured the character of Uncle Tom, a long-suffering black slave around whom the stories of other characters revolve. The sentimental novel depicts the reality of slavery while also asserting that Christian love can overcome something as destructive as enslavement of fellow human beings.

Title: The May flower: and miscellaneous writings. Author: Harriet Beecher StowePublisher: Gale, Sabin Americana Description: Based on Joseph Sabin's famed bibliography, Bibliotheca Americana, Sabin Americana, 1500--1926 contains a collection of books, pamphlets, serials and other works about the Americas, from the time of their discovery to the early 1900s. Sabin Americana is rich in original accounts of discovery and exploration, pioneering and westward expansion, the U. S. Civil War and other military actions, Native Americans, slavery and abolition, religious history and more. Sabin Americana offers an up-close perspective on life in the western hemisphere, encompassing the arrival of the Europeans on the shores of North America in the late 15th century to the first decades of the 20th century. Covering a span of over 400 years in North, Central and South America as well as the Caribbean, this collection highlights the society, politics, religious beliefs, culture, contemporary opinions and momentous events of the time. It provides access to documents from an assortment of genres, sermons, political tracts, newspapers, books, pamphlets, maps, legislation, literature and more. Now for the first time, these high-quality digital scans of original works are available via print-on-demand, making them readily accessible to libraries, students, independent scholars, and readers of all ages.++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++SourceLibrary: Huntington LibraryDocumentID: SABCP03963100CollectionID: CTRG02-B379PublicationDate: 18550101SourceBibCitation: Selected Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to AmericaNotes: Added, engr. t.-p. First ed. published in 1843 under title: The Mayflower. Prose and poetry. Publisher's advertising: 8 p., 2nd group. Collation: 471, 8 p., 1] leaf of plates: port.; 19 cm

Une poignee de contes, par Mme H. Beecher Stowe, traduction de Mme Leontine Rousseau http: //gallica.bnf.fr/ark: /12148/bpt6k562338