Uncle Tom’s cabin, or, Life among the lowly
| dc.contributor | Triggs, Jeffery North American Reading Project, Oxford University Press |
| dc.contributor.author | Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896 |
| dc.coverage.placeName | Cambridge [MA] |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2018-06-14 |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2019-07-04T10:32:35Z |
| dc.date.available | 2019-07-04T10:32:35Z |
| dc.date.created | 1852 |
| dc.identifier | ota:3131 |
| dc.identifier.citation | http://purl.ox.ac.uk/ota/3131 |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12024/3131 |
| dc.description.abstract | First edition published in 1852 |
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| dc.relation.replaces | http://purl.ox.ac.uk/ota/2200 |
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| dc.subject.lcsh | American fiction -- 19th century |
| dc.title | Uncle Tom’s cabin, or, Life among the lowly |
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| otaterms.date.range | 1800-1899 |
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
or Life among the Lowly
by
Harriet Beecher Stowe
A NOTE ON THE TEXT
The present volume reprints the first-edition text as established by Kenneth S. Lynn, editor of the Belknap Press edition published by Harvard University Press in 1962. This text was part of The John Harvard Library under the general editorship of Howard Mumford Jones.
CHAPTER I — In Which the Reader Is Introduced to a Man of Humanity
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, eemed 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 a . . .
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