STOWE, Harriet Beecher.
Uncle Tom's Cabin: or, Life Among the Lowly.
New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company , 1879.
$600.00
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Item Number: RRB-148642
"the book that precipitated the American Civil War”: Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin
Early edition of Stowe's enormously influential work, widely considered the book that precipitated the American Civil War. Octavo, original pictorial wrappers with advertisements to the versos of the front and rear panels. In good condition with toning and chipping. Rare.
“In the emotion-charged atmosphere of mid-19th century America Uncle Tom’s Cabin exploded like a bombshell. To those engaged in fighting slavery it appeared as an indictment of all the evils inherent in the system they opposed; to the pro-slavery forces it was a slanderous attack on ‘the Southern way of life’… the social impact of [the novel] on the United States was greater than that of any book before or since” (PMM 332). “Within a decade after its publication Uncle Tom’s Cabin had become the most popular novel ever written by an American… there is substantial evidence that the book precipitated the American Civil War” (Downs, Books That Changed America, 108).
Uncle Tom's Cabin: or, Life Among the Lowly.
$600.00
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