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Zusammenfassung
Zusammenfassung
In the nineteenth century, Uncle Tom's Cabin sold more copies than any book in the world except the Bible. Upon publication, it was quickly translated into thirty-seven languages and has never gone out of print. It remains a controversial and complex text that, along with David Walker's Appeal, Henry David Thoreau's Walden, W. E. B. DuBois's The Souls of Black Folk, and Helena María Viramontes' Under the Feet of Jesus, among others, stands out as an important text in the progressive struggle for social justice in the United States.
This Second Edition is based on the original 1852 book edition, published in two volumes by John P. Jewett and Company, Boston, and includes all original illustrations. The text is accompanied by a preface and detailed explanatory annotations to assist the reader with obscure historical terms and biblical allusions.
"Backgrounds and Contexts" includes a wealth of historical documents addressing the issues of slavery and abolitionism. New visuals in the Second Edition include a selection of abolition posters and records of torture. Also newly included is J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur's eyewitness account of slavery as a visitor to the United States, a selection from David Walker's Appeal, and Henrietta King's autobiographical account of the horror of slavery.
"Criticism" presents a balanced view of the ongoing controversy over Uncle Tom's Cabin in fifteen reviews and scholarly interpretations spanning more than 150 years of writing about the novel. Paul Laurence Dunbar, Jane P. Tompkins, and Susan M. Ryan, among others, admire Uncle Tom's Cabin for its social vision and artistry, while James Baldwin and Sophia Cantave, among others, argue that the book's racism continues to promote misperceptions and that its prominence does ongoing damage. A Chronology of Stowe's life and work, a Brief Timeline of Slavery in America, and an updated Selected Bibliography are also included.
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Late in the afternoon of a chilly day in February, two gentlemen were sitting alone over their wine, in a well-furnished dining parlor, in the town of P--, in Kentucky. There were no servants present, and the gentlemen, with chairs closely approaching, seemed to be discussing some subject with great earnestness. For convenience sake, we have said, hitherto, two gentlemen. One of the parties, however, when critically examined, did not seem, strictly speaking, to come under the species. He was a short, thick-set man, with coarse, commonplace features, and that swaggering air of pretension which marks a low man who is trying to elbow his way upward in the world. He was much over-dressed, in a gaudy vest of many colors, a blue neckerchief, bedropped gayly with yellow spots, and arranged with a flaunting tie, quite in keeping with the general air of the man. His hands, large and coarse, were plentifully bedecked with rings; and he wore a heavy gold watch-chain, with a bundle of seals of portentous size, and a great variety of colors, attached to it,--which, in the ardor of conversation, he was in the habit of flourishing and jingling with evident satisfaction. His conversation was in free and easy defiance of Murray's Grammar, and was garnished at convenient intervals with various profane expressions, which not even the desire to be graphic in our account shall induce us to transcribe. His companion, Mr. Shelby, had the appearance of a gentleman; and the arrangements of the house, and the general air of the housekeeping, indicated easy, and even opulent circumstances. As we before stated, the two were in the midst of an earnest conversation. 'That is the way I should arrange the matter,' said Mr. Shelby. 'I can't make trade that way--I positively can't, Mr. Shelby,' said the other, holding up a glass of wine between his eye and the light. 'Why, the fact is, Haley, Tom is an uncommon fellow; he is certainly worth that sum anywhere--steady, honest, capable, manages my whole farm like a clock.' 'You mean honest, as niggers go,' said Haley, helping himself to a glass of brandy. 'No; I mean, really, Tom is a good, steady, sensible, pious fellow. He got religion at a camp-meeting, four years ago; and I believe he really did get it. I've trusted him, since then, with everything I have,--money, house, horses,--and let him come and go round the country; and I always found him true and square in everything.' 'Some folks don't believe there is pious niggers, Shelby,' said Haley, with a candid flourish of his hand, 'but I do. I had a fellow, now, in this yer last lot I took to Orleans--'twas as good as a meetin', now, really, to hear that critter pray; and he was quite gentle and quiet like. He fetched me a good sum, too, for I bought him cheap of a man that was 'bliged to sell out; so I realized six hundred on him. Yes, I consider religion a valeyable thing in a nigger, when it's the genuine article, and no mistake.' 'Well, Tom's got the real article, if ever a fellow had,' rejoined the other. 'Why, last fall, I let him go to Cincinnati alone, to do business for me, and bring home five hundred dollars. 'Tom,' says I to him, 'I trust you, because I think you're a Christian--'I know you wouldn't cheat.' Tom comes back, sure enough; I knew he would. Some low fellows, they say, said to him--'Tom, why don't you make tracks for Canada?' 'Ah, master trusted me, and I couldn't'--they told me about it. I am sorry to part with Tom, I must say. You ought to let him cover the whole balance of the debt; and you would, Haley, if you had any conscience.' 'Well, I've got just as much conscience as any man in business can afford to keep,--just a little, you know, to swear by, as 'twere,' said the trader, jocularly; 'and then, I'm ready to do anything in reason to 'blige friends; but this yer, you see, is a leetle too hard on a fellow--a leetle too hard.' The trader sighed contemplatively, and poured out some more brandy. 'Well, then, Haley, how will you trade?' said Mr. Shelby, after an uneasy interval of silence. 'Well, haven't you a boy or gal that you could throw in with Tom?' 'Hum!--none that I could well spare; to tell the truth, it's only hard necessity makes me willing to sell at all. I don't like parting with any of my hands, that's a fact.' Here the door opened, and a small quadroon boy, between four and five years of age, entered the room. There was something in his appearance remarkably beautiful and engaging. His black hair, fine as floss silk, hung in glossy curls about his round, dimpled face, while a pair of large dark eyes, full of fire and softness, looked out from beneath the rich, long lashes, as he peered curiously into the apartment. A gay robe of scarlet and yellow plaid, carefully made and neatly fitted, set off to advantage the dark and rich style of his beauty; and a certain comic air of assurance, blended with bashfulness, showed that he had been not unused to being petted and noticed by his master. From the Trade Paperback edition. Excerpted from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe All rights reserved by the original copyright owners. Excerpts are provided for display purposes only and may not be reproduced, reprinted or distributed without the written permission of the publisher.Inhaltsverzeichnis
Preface |
A Note on the Text |
Acknowledgments |
The Text of Uncle Tom's Cabin |
1 First-edition title page |
2 Preface |
3 Table of Contents |
4 List of Illustrations |
5 Uncle Tom's Cabin |
Backgrounds and Contexts |
1 Map: The Eastern United States in the Antebellum Period |
2 Slave Sale Announcements |
3 Escaped Slave Advertisements |
4 Abolition Posters |
5 Visual Records of Torture |
6 J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur • [A Visitor's Description of Slavery's Atrocity] |
7 David Walker • [from Appeal, In Four Articles] |
8 Josiah Henson • Life of Josiah Henson |
9 Solomon Northup • A Slave Auction Described by a Slave, 1841 |
10 Henrietta King • [A Freeperson's Memory of Slavery's Horror] |
11 Harriet Jacobs • The Trials of Girlhood |
12 William Wells Brown • Another Kidnapping, 1844 |
13 |
1 • The Flight of Ellen and William Craft, 1849 |
14 Harriet Beecher Stowe • Letter to the Abolitionist Eliza Cabot Follen |
15 |
1 • From A Key to "Uncle Tom's Cabin" |
2 |
1 Uncle Tom |
2 The Execution of Justice |
3 • Appeal to the Women of the Free States |
16 Martin Delany • from Blake; or, The Huts of America |
17 George M. Frederickson • Uncle Tom and the Anglo-Saxons: Romantic Racialism in the North |
18 George Cruikshank • Illustration: Tom reading his Bible |
19 |
1 • Illustration: The poor bleeding heart |
2 • Illustration: Emmeline about to be sold to the highest bidder |
20 Thomas F. Gosset • Anti-Uncle Tom Literature |
21 Mary C. Henderson • [Tom Shows] |
22 Tom-Show Poster |
Criticism |
1 Nineteenth-Century Reviews and Reception |
2 |
1 George Sand • Review of Uncle Tom's Cabin |
2 William G. Allen • [About Uncle Tom's Cabin] |
3 Ethiop • Review of Uncle Tom's Cabin |
4 George F. Holmes • Review of Uncle Tom's Cabin |
5 Anonymous • Review of Uncle Tom's Cabin |
6 Charles Dudley Warner • [Uncle Tom's Cabin a Half Century Later] |
7 Frances Ellen Watkins [Harper] • Eliza Harris |
8 Helen Gray Cone • [Harriet Beecher Stowe and American Women Writers] |
9 Paul Laurence Dunbar • Harriet Beecher Stowe |
10 G. Grant Williams • Reminiscence of the Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe and Her Family |
3 Modern Critical Views |
4 |
1 James Baldwin • Everybody's Protest Novel |
2 Jane P. Tompkins • Sentimental Power: Uncle Tom's Cabin and the Politics of Literary History |
3 Robert S. Levine • Uncle Tom's Cabin in Frederick Douglass' Paper: An Analysis of Reception |
4 Sophia Cantave • Who Gets to Create the Lasting Images? The Problem of Black Representation in Uncle Tom's Cabin |
5 Susan M. Ryan • Charity Begins at Home: Stowe's Antislavery Novels and the Forms of Benevolent Citizenship |
Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Chronology |
A Brief Timeline of Slavery in America |
Selected Bibliography |