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Uncle Tom's Cabin

by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Uncle Tom's Cabin is an antislavery novel written by Harriet Beecher Stowe, published in the early 1850s. A best-seller, it popularized the abolitionist cause in the United States in the run-up to the American Civil War.

Bibliographic notes

Uncle Tom's Cabin was first serialized in The National Era beginning in 1851. In book form, it was first published in two volumes in 1852. A variety of popular editions, abridged children's editions, dramatizations, and other related works followed.

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See also

Study editions

Uncle Tom's Cabin (includes many auxiliary texts and commentary), by Harriet Beecher Stowe (frame-dependent HTML at Virginia). Includes texts of the manuscript, the first serialized edition, and the first book edition, as well as copious supplementary material.

Early book editions

Uncle Tom's Cabin: or, Life Among the Lowly (illustrated edition; Boston, J. P. Jewett and Co.; Cleveland: Jewett, Proctor, and Worthington, 1853), by Harriet Beecher Stowe, illust. by Hammatt Billings
- multiple formats at archive.org
- page images at HathiTrust
Uncle Tom's Cabin: or, Life Among the Lowly (Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1853), by Harriet Beecher Stowe, illust. by Matthew Urlwin Sears (multiple formats at archive.org)

Adapted children's editions

Uncle Tom's Cabin for Children (Philadelphia: Penn Publishing Co., c1908), by Harriet Beecher Stowe and Helen Ring Robinson, illust. by W. M. Rhoads (page images at LOC)
Uncle Tom's Cabin, Young Folks Edition (Chicago: M. A. Donohue and Company, n.d.), by Harriet Beecher Stowe (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

Other online editions and versions

Uncle Tom's Cabin, by Harriet Beecher Stowe (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

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