Uncle Tom's cabin

Introduction

Select bibliography

Chronology

Preface

Volume I. The reader is introduced to a man of humanity

The mother

The husband and father

An evening in Uncle Tom's cabin

Showing the feelings of living property on changing owners

Discovery

The mother's struggle

Eliza's escape

It appears that a senator is but a man

The property is carried off

Property gets into an improper state of mind

Select incident of lawful trade

The Quaker settlement

Evangeline

Of Tom's new master, and various other matters

Tom's mistress and her opinions

The freeman's defence

Miss Ophelia's experiences and opinions

Volume II. Miss Ophelia's experiences and opinions, continued

Topsy

Kentuck

The grass withereth, the flower fadeth

Henrique

Foreshadowings

The little evangelist

Death

This is the last of earth

Reunion

The unprotected

The slave warehouse

The middle passage

Dark places

Cassy

The quadroon's story

The tokens

Emmeline and Cassy

Liberty

The victory

The stratagem

The martyr

The young master

An authentic ghost story

Results

The liberator

Concluding remarks.

Introduction by Mary R. Reichardt

Text of Uncle Tom's cabin

Classic Criticism: Review of Uncle Tom's cabin / George Sand ; London Times review of Uncle Tom's cabin / Anonymous ; Excerpts from a review of Uncle Tom's cabin / George F. Holmes

Contemporary Criticism: part of the family: slavery and the destruction of familial bonds in Uncle Tom's cabin / Dedra McDonald Birzer ; News of her own: Harriet Beecher Stowe's investigative fiction / Mark Canada ; Uncle Tom as a Christ figure / John J. Han.