Uncle Tom's Cabin is an antislavery novel written by Harriet Beecher Stowe, published in the early 1850s. A best-seller, it popularized the abolitionist cause in the United States in the run-up to the American Civil War.
Bibliographic notesUncle Tom's Cabin was first serialized in The National Era beginning in 1851. In book form, it was first published in two volumes in 1852. A variety of popular editions, abridged children's editions, dramatizations, and other related works followed.
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Uncle Tom's Cabin (includes many auxiliary texts and commentary), by Harriet Beecher Stowe (frame-dependent HTML at Virginia). Includes texts of the manuscript, the first serialized edition, and the first book edition, as well as copious supplementary material.
- Uncle Tom's Cabin: or, Life Among the Lowly (illustrated edition; Boston, J. P. Jewett and Co.; Cleveland: Jewett, Proctor, and Worthington, 1853), by Harriet Beecher Stowe, illust. by Hammatt Billings
- Uncle Tom's Cabin: or, Life Among the Lowly (Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1853), by Harriet Beecher Stowe, illust. by Matthew Urlwin Sears (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Uncle Tom's Cabin for Children (Philadelphia: Penn Publishing Co., c1908), by Harriet Beecher Stowe and Helen Ring Robinson, illust. by W. M. Rhoads (page images at LOC)
- Uncle Tom's Cabin, Young Folks Edition (Chicago: M. A. Donohue and Company, n.d.), by Harriet Beecher Stowe (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Uncle Tom's Cabin, by Harriet Beecher Stowe (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
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