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UNCLE TOMS CABIN - HARRIET BEECHER-STOWE KARTON...

Uncle Tom  Topsy  Sambo  Simon Legree  little Eva: their names are American bywords  and all of
them are characters in Harriet Beecher Stowe's remarkable novel of the pre-Civil War South.
Uncle Tom's Cabin was revolutionary in 1852 for its passionate indictment of slavery and for
its presentation of Tom  a man of humanity  as the first black hero in American fiction.
Labeled racist and condescending by some contemporary critics  it remains a shocking 
controversial  and powerful work -- exposing the attitudes of white nineteenth-century society
toward the peculiar institution and documenting  in heartrending detail  the tragic breakup of
black Kentucky families sold down the river. An immediate international sensation  Uncle Tom's
Cabin sold 300 000 copies in the first year  was translated into thirty-seven languages  and
has never gone out of print: its political impact was immense  its emotional influence
immeasurable.

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