Uncle Tom's Cabin
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Actor Edward Woodward dies at 79...all about. Getting work and entertaining people." At the time, Woodward was promoting a U.S. television film of "Uncle Tom's Cabin," in which played the wicked slave owner, Simon Legree. He found the role strangely refreshing. "If you are... In this article: Edward Woodward, Uncle Tom's Cabin, The Equalizer, London, The Wicker Man, Emmy Award, Golden Globe, and Michele Dotrice |
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Wales Online | November 17, 2009
TV: Tributes paid to Wicker Man star Edward Woodward
His film appearances include roles in A Christmas Carol, Merlin And The Sword, The Young Winston, The Champions, Who Dares Wins and Uncle Tom's Cabin. He continued to work in films and appeared most recently in the police movie...
In this article: Edward Woodward, The Wicker Man, EastEnders, The Equalizer, Simon Pegg, Michele Dotrice, Noel Coward, Emmy Award, and Robin Hardy
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San Jose Mercury News | November 16, 2009
'Equalizer' star Edward Woodward dies
...added. "And after all, that's what an actor's life is all about. Getting work and entertaining people." of "Uncle Tom's Cabin," in which played the wicked slave owner, Simon Legree. He found the role strangely refreshing. "If you are a...
In this article: Edward Woodward, The Equalizer, The Wicker Man, London, Hot Fuzz, Emmy Award, and Golden Globe
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Cincinnati Enquirer | November 16, 2009
Margaret Garner story began in Boone
...the Garners to Kentucky. This incident was one of several during the 1850s that, along with Harriet Beecher Stowe's 1852 publication of "Uncle Tom's Cabin," popularized the plight of African American slaves. For Margaret Garner, the...
In this article: Margaret Garner, Salmon P. Chase, Cincinnati, Ohio, Boone, Colorado, Nobel Prize in Literature, Civil War, and Fugitive Slave Law of 1850
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Hartford Courant | November 11, 2009
High School Spotlight: Britteni Simpson
...in distance, so I thought he was right. Then I had to break it to my family." Favorite food: Oxtails, rice and peas Last book read: "Uncle Tom's Cabin" Favorite movie: "What's Love Got To Do With It?" Other sports: None, but "ever...
In this article: Nike, What's Love Got to Do with It, Brooklyn, N.Y, East Hartford, and Riverside Park
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Bleacher Report | November 11, 2009
Colby, Bates and Bowdoin: A Real Football Rivalry
...1794. It is said that the Civil War "started and ended in Bowdoin." It began when Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote her anti-slavery novel Uncle Tom's Cabin in Bowdoin's Appleton Hall. The war all but ended when General Joshua Chamberlain, a...
In this article: NFL, Maine, Joshua Chamberlain, Liberal arts, Civil War, Colby College, and Red Sox
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Connecticut Post | November 07, 2009
Book recounts state's role leading to Civil War
...became ashamed of it,'' Smith said. Harriet Beecher Stowe, who lived in Hartford, put a human face on slavery in her book "Uncle Tom's Cabin,'' and her brother Henry Ward Beecher, famously said "rifles are more valuable than Bibles in ending...
In this article: Civil War, Connecticut, Harriet Beecher Stowe, John Brown, Torrington, and Henry Ward Beecher
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Stuff | November 01, 2009
Banned books go on display
...Lover, Lolita, Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses, All Quiet on the Western Front, The Isle of Pines, the anti-slavery novel Uncle Tom's Cabin, Karl Marx's Das Kapital, Adolf Hitler's autobiography My Struggle, and the 1920s sex guide...
In this article: Otago Daily Times, Das Kapital, Otago University, Lady Chatterley's Lover, Twitter, All Quiet on the Western Front, The Satanic Verses, and Salman Rushdie
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Independent.co.uk - Commentators | October 23, 2009
Boyd Tonkin: The river that runs deep in the American psyche
...river also became a site where America's conflicts and divisions found expression: above all, over race. In Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin - the second best-selling book of the 19th century, after the Bible - the slave Tom saves...
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Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. Published in 1852, the novel had a profound effect on attitudes toward African Americans and slavery in the United States, so much in the latter case that the novel intensified the sectional conflict leading to the American Civil War.
Stowe, a Connecticut-born preacher at the Hartford Female Academy and an active abolitionist, focused the novel on the character of Uncle Tom, a long-suffering Black slave around whom the stories of other characters—both fellow slaves and slave owners—revolve. The sentimental novel depicts the cruel reality of slavery while also asserting that Christian love can overcome something as destructive as enslavement of fellow human beings.
Uncle Tom's Cabin was the best-selling novel of the 19th century, and the second best-selling book of that century, following the Bible. It is credited with helping fuel the abolitionist cause in the 1850s. In the first year after it was published, 300,000 copies of the book were sold in the United States alone. The book's impact was so great that when Abraham Lincoln met Stowe at the start of the American Civil War, Lincoln is often quoted as having declared, "So this is the little lady who made this big war."
- Name:
- Uncle Tom's Cabin
- Country of Origin:
- United States
- Genre:
- Novel
- Written By:
- Harriet Beecher Stowe
- Illustrated By:
- Hammatt Billings (1st edition)
- Published By:
- National Era (as a serial) & John P. Jewett and Company (in two volumes)
- Media Type:
- Print (Hardback & Paperback)
- Language:
- English
- Published Date:
- March 20, 1853
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