1886 Uncle Tom's Cabin: A Tale of Life Among the Lowly

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Illustrated, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding

Illustrated with a frontispiece and four plates. Collated complete. American author Harriet Beecher Stowe's influential sentimental novel, said to have laid the groundwork for the Civil War. As an abolitionist, Stowe wrote the novel to depict the reality of slavery. It had a profound impact on attitudes towards African Americans and slavery in the U.S. and is credited with helping fuel the abolitionist cause in the 1850s. Uncle Tom's Cabin was the second best-selling book of the nineteenth century, following the Bible. Dated from the University of Cambridge Libraries.