Uncle Tom's Cabin

Special Edition - Illustrated with 89 Original Black and White Line Drawings. Uncle Tom’s Cabin or Life Among the Lowly, by Harriet Beecher Stowe is an anti-slavery book first published in 1852, one year before Solomon Northup’s Twelve Years a Slave. In fact, Twelve Years a Slave, by Solomon Northup was dedicated to the author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin.

Considered to have helped lay groundwork for the American Civil War and power the abolitionist cause, Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe is an anti-slavery book which was the bestselling novel of the 19th century and also the second bestselling book of that century, only following the Bible!

Uncle Tom’s Cabin sold 300,000 copies in the USA in the year after its publication and 1 million copies in Great Britain in that same year. In 1855, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, by Harriet Beecher Stowe was called “the most popular novel of our day”.

Harriet Beecher Stowe was a teacher and active abolitionist that introduced in Uncle Tom’s Cabin the character of Uncle Tom, a long-suffering black slave around whom the stories of other characters revolve.

Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin book illustrates the reality of slavery while also affirming that Christian love can overcome something as destructive as enslavement of human beings.

Uncle Tom’s Cabin, by Harriet Beecher Stowe inspired plays and films, having had an extraordinary impact as a vital anti-slavery tool.