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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. Review: Should be Required Reading - This story of 19th Century slave culture is foreign to our present consciousness; that is why we should require its reading for high school students. It presents the domestic world of the 19th Century, social attitudes, beliefs and socially accepted illusions, political developments, and their effects on people of differing social classes in a vivid and memorable way. How does a society tolerate such an evil as slavery? This novel helps us understand that people of many societies accommodate evil to some extent or another, and confronts us with the issue of our willingness to pay the price to do what is right. This may be the reason why those who believe in “progress” are reluctant to read this ground-breaking novel, for it pierces the self-satisfaction of those who simply do what is socially accepted, and point out that human virtue and goodness are rather rare in every society. For example, the New England woman who comes South to assist her cousin St. Claire care for his daughter Eva, because the mother is a self-persuaded invalid, is morally shocked by slavery, but also finds the Blacks repulsive. She must confront her own prejudice against the slave she is given to teach, and she must develop a caring relationship, a genuine love, before her teaching can overcome the slave-girl’s dysfunctional approach to life (arising from early neglect). In this, the child Eva, who has a genuine affection for the slave members of the household who have cared for her, leads the way, dying before adolescence leads her to that conforming to society which teaches us implicitly what evils to shun and which to tolerate and just accept without acknowledgment. There is ample fodder in this story for the argument that society makes otherwise good people do evil things, in other words that structure molds our morals. It begins with a “good” Kentucky family which treats their slaves well. These latter include Uncle Tom who functions as a steward of the estate, even carrying sums of money unsupervised for his owner to other states, and returning. Also included is Eliza, married to a slave from another farm, and their son Jim Crowe. Eliza is a mulatto (half-Black/half white), with features appealing to white men, but she is safe in the family that owns her. However, the owner has taken financial chances and his debts have been bought up by a slave trader who threatens to foreclose, forcing the owner to sell his three most valuable slaves, Eliza, Tom, and Eliza’s amusing son. Finding it easier to act first and reconcile later, he makes the sale, but before the Eliza and son can be seized by the dealer, Eliza flees, and when she reaches the Ohio River, has to leap from ice floe to ice floe to escape into free territory. There by chance she meets up with her husband who has escaped from his resentful master at a Quaker settlement and they eventually make it to Ontario. By the end of their story, he has obtained an education in France, secured freedom in American law, but determines his identity to be with the African ancestors rather than his white ancestors and decides to settle in Liberia. Tom, on the other hand, accepts his sale and separation from his wife and children as a trial and his treatment by the dealer is detailed, a mix of unnecessary humiliation, and relaxation of this for good behavior. On the river boat down to New Orleans, a wealthy man’s daughter, the Eva we spoke of earlier, takes a fancy to him, in part because of his gentleness and in part because of his skill in entertaining children with makeshift toys, etc. She persuades her father, St. Claire, to purchase him, and Tom finds himself part of this easy-going family. St. Claire inherited slaves with his brother, but while the brother had the firmness (and necessary cruelty) to keep his in order, St. Claire shrinks from becoming brutilized. His brother took after their father who was a worldly man, but he was more like his mother, a fervent Catholic who regarded the slaves, if not as equals, then at least as people worthy of respect and consideration. Having adopted a fashionable skeptic air, St. Claire struggles between these two poles of his life, and admires the dignity, faith, and integrity of Tom who becomes his spiritual mentor. St. Claire determines to give Tom his freedom, and even discusses it with his New England cousin who urges him not to delay. He insist that he has all the time in the world, and the next night goes to the tavern. In attempting to break up a fight he gets stabbed in the gut with a Bowie knife, dying the next day. Tom is again sold as the estate is liquidated and the hypochondriac widow returns to her father’s plantation. Tom’s interim with other slaves is described as they await the day of their auction. They are well fed for healthy, cheerful slaves fetch the highest prices. The humiliation of prospective buyers who grope the slaves to feel their muscles (especially of the women) and the examination of teeth, as is done with horse-selling, is described with a restraint that allows the reader to react to the thing described rather than to the Author’s rhetoric. Tom, it turns out, is purchased by greedy ruffian, Simon Legree, a man determined to become rich by working his slaves as hard as he can, without paying heed to what others might think right or humane. Instead of a wife he takes a slave or two as mistress; similarly, the two slaves he can train to be his foremen he makes subordinate companions in drinking and amusement, if they can brutalize the others and so keep them working. Tom gets into trouble with these for assisting the slaves who fall behind in their work. He is warned by a slave woman who seems to be immune to the foremen’s threats, not to help others, just accept the way things are. Because he is cooperative and learns quickly, Legree thinks initially of making Tom a foreman; but when Tom refuses to degrade a woman by stripping her and administering a beating, Legree has Tom receive the beating, and treats him with the resentment he feels arising from the moral judgment implicit in Tom’s refusal to do what is beneath him. Tom’s former owners in Kentucky, the wife and the son of the man who had sold him had promised to buy Tom’s freedom when they had the means, and when the husband/father passed away, their notion of honor was less tied up in preserving the family plantation and more in keeping their promise. Thus the son, now after eight years, a man of 20, comes to New Orleans to track down Tom, and finally comes to Simon Legree’s Arkansas plantation. Alas, Tom has just died in a selfless act, and Legree treats the dead slave with no more dignity that of a horse’s carcass, and allows the young man to have the body, which he buries decently before returning to Kentucky. The family agrees to free all their slaves but employ them on the farm if they chose. At this announcement, Tom’s example of faith, courage, and goodness to others is to be remembered every time they pass by Uncle Tom’s cabin.” The story has several subplots which develop several personalities, for better or worse. Tom is clearly a Christ figure whose faith and suffering changes hearts and leads to the freedom of many of his people. Grace is present even in oppressive conditions. A strength of the writing is the various portraits of persons of different stations of life; the natural superiority of some persons over others, not by virtue of race but by moral sensitivity that transcends mere selfishness. The flaws in the slave system which allow one man to determine the fate of another, and to ignore the sacred ties of marriage and family for economic consideration are effectively exhibited. That many slaveholders saw themselves as kind, indulgent, and looking out for the good of their slaves is cheerfully portrayed; but their heirs or immediate family might have differing views which allow no consideration of the slave’s welfare to influence their decisions about them. One criticism of the novel is that it is melodramatic. Eva, the child full of love for her flawed parents and the slaves in the household, who dies tragically early, may strain the reader’s credulity, but even here, the differing tastes of readers in the 1840’s may be a valuable lesson, comparable as it is to some of Charles Dickens' creations. Perhaps a more troublesome issue for modern readers, especially on the high school level is the use of the n-word, accepted then but regarded as intolerable today. Twain’s “Huckleberry Finn” has been banned from several high schools for that reason. But, if we can teach students to imitate the good and not the evil they encounter in literature, this should not be a definitive objection. Few women can claim to have influenced American history as much as the author Harriet Beecher Stowe; and yet it is not fashionable to put her forth as a model for women today. Her strict moral outlook and appeal to Christian sensibilities, as well as her faithful representations of what people were like in 19th Century America is not congruent with Marxist-inspired wokeness which insists that traditional religion is the source rather than the enemy of social evil, and that in order to have influence we must break barriers rather than respect them. Similarly, the Marxist turn of the Civil Rights movement which tended to admire Malcom X rather than Martin Luther King has turned the very name of “Uncle Tom” into an epithet of contempt used for those who cowardly cooperate with the oppressor rather than fight for rights. This is ironic in that the book’s hero is, in fact, the most courageous and principled character in the book, admired and envied by every individual of good will. But not everyone wants to be a martyr, and it was (according to “The Root” website) a supporter of Marcus Garvey and his back-to-Africa movement who in a 1919 speech proclaimed separation rather than cooperation to be the only path for self-respecting Negros. It really boils down to what we regard as the salvation envisioned for American Blacks- if separation, then there is no use for Beecher’s hero; if the races are to live together in peace then the figure of Uncle Tom as a man of courage, integrity, and faith, is one to inspire emulation of all races. Review: What You Need to Know - Way too many fancy words. I don't see her using such words in conversation. I found the book boring most of the times with some high points. I feel the words did not come off the page and resonate with me. I think she "tells" the reader rather then "Showing" the reader. I made it half way and closed the book ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #7,361 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #20 in African American Demographic Studies (Books) #154 in Classic Literature & Fiction #513 in Literary Fiction (Books) | | Customer Reviews | 4.6 out of 5 stars 15,633 Reviews | ## Images ![Uncle Tom's Cabin (Bantam Classics) - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71LRQp0uoEL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Should be Required Reading *by "***E on May 4, 2024* This story of 19th Century slave culture is foreign to our present consciousness; that is why we should require its reading for high school students. It presents the domestic world of the 19th Century, social attitudes, beliefs and socially accepted illusions, political developments, and their effects on people of differing social classes in a vivid and memorable way. How does a society tolerate such an evil as slavery? This novel helps us understand that people of many societies accommodate evil to some extent or another, and confronts us with the issue of our willingness to pay the price to do what is right. This may be the reason why those who believe in “progress” are reluctant to read this ground-breaking novel, for it pierces the self-satisfaction of those who simply do what is socially accepted, and point out that human virtue and goodness are rather rare in every society. For example, the New England woman who comes South to assist her cousin St. Claire care for his daughter Eva, because the mother is a self-persuaded invalid, is morally shocked by slavery, but also finds the Blacks repulsive. She must confront her own prejudice against the slave she is given to teach, and she must develop a caring relationship, a genuine love, before her teaching can overcome the slave-girl’s dysfunctional approach to life (arising from early neglect). In this, the child Eva, who has a genuine affection for the slave members of the household who have cared for her, leads the way, dying before adolescence leads her to that conforming to society which teaches us implicitly what evils to shun and which to tolerate and just accept without acknowledgment. There is ample fodder in this story for the argument that society makes otherwise good people do evil things, in other words that structure molds our morals. It begins with a “good” Kentucky family which treats their slaves well. These latter include Uncle Tom who functions as a steward of the estate, even carrying sums of money unsupervised for his owner to other states, and returning. Also included is Eliza, married to a slave from another farm, and their son Jim Crowe. Eliza is a mulatto (half-Black/half white), with features appealing to white men, but she is safe in the family that owns her. However, the owner has taken financial chances and his debts have been bought up by a slave trader who threatens to foreclose, forcing the owner to sell his three most valuable slaves, Eliza, Tom, and Eliza’s amusing son. Finding it easier to act first and reconcile later, he makes the sale, but before the Eliza and son can be seized by the dealer, Eliza flees, and when she reaches the Ohio River, has to leap from ice floe to ice floe to escape into free territory. There by chance she meets up with her husband who has escaped from his resentful master at a Quaker settlement and they eventually make it to Ontario. By the end of their story, he has obtained an education in France, secured freedom in American law, but determines his identity to be with the African ancestors rather than his white ancestors and decides to settle in Liberia. Tom, on the other hand, accepts his sale and separation from his wife and children as a trial and his treatment by the dealer is detailed, a mix of unnecessary humiliation, and relaxation of this for good behavior. On the river boat down to New Orleans, a wealthy man’s daughter, the Eva we spoke of earlier, takes a fancy to him, in part because of his gentleness and in part because of his skill in entertaining children with makeshift toys, etc. She persuades her father, St. Claire, to purchase him, and Tom finds himself part of this easy-going family. St. Claire inherited slaves with his brother, but while the brother had the firmness (and necessary cruelty) to keep his in order, St. Claire shrinks from becoming brutilized. His brother took after their father who was a worldly man, but he was more like his mother, a fervent Catholic who regarded the slaves, if not as equals, then at least as people worthy of respect and consideration. Having adopted a fashionable skeptic air, St. Claire struggles between these two poles of his life, and admires the dignity, faith, and integrity of Tom who becomes his spiritual mentor. St. Claire determines to give Tom his freedom, and even discusses it with his New England cousin who urges him not to delay. He insist that he has all the time in the world, and the next night goes to the tavern. In attempting to break up a fight he gets stabbed in the gut with a Bowie knife, dying the next day. Tom is again sold as the estate is liquidated and the hypochondriac widow returns to her father’s plantation. Tom’s interim with other slaves is described as they await the day of their auction. They are well fed for healthy, cheerful slaves fetch the highest prices. The humiliation of prospective buyers who grope the slaves to feel their muscles (especially of the women) and the examination of teeth, as is done with horse-selling, is described with a restraint that allows the reader to react to the thing described rather than to the Author’s rhetoric. Tom, it turns out, is purchased by greedy ruffian, Simon Legree, a man determined to become rich by working his slaves as hard as he can, without paying heed to what others might think right or humane. Instead of a wife he takes a slave or two as mistress; similarly, the two slaves he can train to be his foremen he makes subordinate companions in drinking and amusement, if they can brutalize the others and so keep them working. Tom gets into trouble with these for assisting the slaves who fall behind in their work. He is warned by a slave woman who seems to be immune to the foremen’s threats, not to help others, just accept the way things are. Because he is cooperative and learns quickly, Legree thinks initially of making Tom a foreman; but when Tom refuses to degrade a woman by stripping her and administering a beating, Legree has Tom receive the beating, and treats him with the resentment he feels arising from the moral judgment implicit in Tom’s refusal to do what is beneath him. Tom’s former owners in Kentucky, the wife and the son of the man who had sold him had promised to buy Tom’s freedom when they had the means, and when the husband/father passed away, their notion of honor was less tied up in preserving the family plantation and more in keeping their promise. Thus the son, now after eight years, a man of 20, comes to New Orleans to track down Tom, and finally comes to Simon Legree’s Arkansas plantation. Alas, Tom has just died in a selfless act, and Legree treats the dead slave with no more dignity that of a horse’s carcass, and allows the young man to have the body, which he buries decently before returning to Kentucky. The family agrees to free all their slaves but employ them on the farm if they chose. At this announcement, Tom’s example of faith, courage, and goodness to others is to be remembered every time they pass by Uncle Tom’s cabin.” The story has several subplots which develop several personalities, for better or worse. Tom is clearly a Christ figure whose faith and suffering changes hearts and leads to the freedom of many of his people. Grace is present even in oppressive conditions. A strength of the writing is the various portraits of persons of different stations of life; the natural superiority of some persons over others, not by virtue of race but by moral sensitivity that transcends mere selfishness. The flaws in the slave system which allow one man to determine the fate of another, and to ignore the sacred ties of marriage and family for economic consideration are effectively exhibited. That many slaveholders saw themselves as kind, indulgent, and looking out for the good of their slaves is cheerfully portrayed; but their heirs or immediate family might have differing views which allow no consideration of the slave’s welfare to influence their decisions about them. One criticism of the novel is that it is melodramatic. Eva, the child full of love for her flawed parents and the slaves in the household, who dies tragically early, may strain the reader’s credulity, but even here, the differing tastes of readers in the 1840’s may be a valuable lesson, comparable as it is to some of Charles Dickens' creations. Perhaps a more troublesome issue for modern readers, especially on the high school level is the use of the n-word, accepted then but regarded as intolerable today. Twain’s “Huckleberry Finn” has been banned from several high schools for that reason. But, if we can teach students to imitate the good and not the evil they encounter in literature, this should not be a definitive objection. Few women can claim to have influenced American history as much as the author Harriet Beecher Stowe; and yet it is not fashionable to put her forth as a model for women today. Her strict moral outlook and appeal to Christian sensibilities, as well as her faithful representations of what people were like in 19th Century America is not congruent with Marxist-inspired wokeness which insists that traditional religion is the source rather than the enemy of social evil, and that in order to have influence we must break barriers rather than respect them. Similarly, the Marxist turn of the Civil Rights movement which tended to admire Malcom X rather than Martin Luther King has turned the very name of “Uncle Tom” into an epithet of contempt used for those who cowardly cooperate with the oppressor rather than fight for rights. This is ironic in that the book’s hero is, in fact, the most courageous and principled character in the book, admired and envied by every individual of good will. But not everyone wants to be a martyr, and it was (according to “The Root” website) a supporter of Marcus Garvey and his back-to-Africa movement who in a 1919 speech proclaimed separation rather than cooperation to be the only path for self-respecting Negros. It really boils down to what we regard as the salvation envisioned for American Blacks- if separation, then there is no use for Beecher’s hero; if the races are to live together in peace then the figure of Uncle Tom as a man of courage, integrity, and faith, is one to inspire emulation of all races. ### ⭐⭐ What You Need to Know *by J***L on June 8, 2020* Way too many fancy words. I don't see her using such words in conversation. I found the book boring most of the times with some high points. I feel the words did not come off the page and resonate with me. I think she "tells" the reader rather then "Showing" the reader. I made it half way and closed the book ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Amazing and moving...Why isn't this REQUIRED reading in schools? *by B***B on February 17, 2013* Uncle Tom's Cabin was a book I KNEW about, but only as a historical artifact--a story that helped ignite the Civil War....but little else. The trivial fact that it was the first American novel to sell 1,000,000 copies was tucked away in my mind, and the disparaging label of someone being called an "Uncle Tom" was about the extent of my knowledge of Stowe's masterpiece. Now, having read the entire book, I am ashamed at having never taken the time before. The power in the narrative and the characters in the story is enough to keep you turning the pages to see what happens next! To my surprise, even though it is more than 150 years old, it was not difficult to understand... UTC essentially tells two stories at once--two slaves are set to be sold from a Kentucky plantation/farm they have lived all their lives. One is the older, well-respected Uncle Tom, and the other is the young, pretty Eliza. Tom accepts his fate, confident in his faith that God will protect him. Eliza, fearful of losing her child (with good reason) decides to run away to Ohio, where she hopes to find freedom. Along the way, both of these good souls have trials and tribulations...times of fear, hope, friendships and pain. Nothing is guaranteed for them....and sometimes their travels through life are blessed, and sometimes they are shook by sudden, unexpected pain. Tom's journey from Kentucky is primarily south; to a land where generally slaves are subject to much rougher conditions than in his native border state. Eliza, of course, is going north to Ohio, and eventually, she hopes, to Canada. But fugitive slaves are still hunted in Ohio, so there are no guarantees. The most difficult part of the reading for me was getting acclimated to the style in which Stowe portrays the conversation of the slaves. Because the language is more coarse, uneducated and casual, it took a little while to completely understand what a slave was saying. At times, I had to stop and "sound out" what the words were, just to get the jist of what was meant. After a little while, though, this became easier. The most surprising aspect of the story...and perhaps this explains the current absence of Stowe's novel in the modern mind...was the unambiguous and unapologetic Christian timber replete throughout the pages. Stowe rightfully believed that true Christianity did not endorse the idea of one man being the property of another. In her day, some religious leaders excused slavery in the states by creating contrived arguments supposedly developed from the Bible. Stowe challenges those preposterous notions headon! UTC is filled with direct references to Scripture and Christian hymns. Even one of the most irreligious characters, a one-time owner of Tom, Augustine St. Clare, is able to see how the slave trade is altogether UN-Christian, though he also finds it difficult to give up his "servants". The deeply religious Quakers, who help run the fugitive slaves to freedom, are also portrayed as true followers of Jesus. Most touching is how they even tend to the injuries of an evil bounty hunter--a man who would have killed them if it meant recapturing a slave. Uncle Tom's faith is described in great detail, and his ability to endure in times of want reminds one of the Old Testament story of Job. He strives to maintain trust in his Savior. My review ends here; to give away the ending might discourage someone from picking up the story and reading it for themselves. The time spent absorbing Stowe's novel is well-spent. 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