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Review: An important read for understanding American history. - I have a love / hate relationship with the novel. Some days, I think that Stowe is unforgivably racist and cares only about preserving the souls of white people who are forfeiting their place in heaven by owning slaves. On other days, I am really impressed by the way that Stowe is working within many of the discourses of her time and creating a radical message about why slavery is unchristian, unpatriotic and unwomanly. Of course, everyone knows that Uncle Tom's Cabin was the best-selling book of its time, outselling even the Bible. It sold over 1,000,000 copies, and, for every copy sold, about 10 people read the book. For every person who read the book, about 50 saw a dramatic adaptation (possibly one of the versions by Aiken or Conway, which took away much of Stowe's message and retained mostly the melodrama and racial stereotypes). Nineteenth century America was steeped in Uncle Tom's Cabin. It was the first book to have spin-off products that are common for films today - actions figures, tea sets, dolls, board games, card games, sheet music. Uncle Tom's Cabin permeated American culture. It is speciously reported that, upon meeting Stowe during the Civil War, President Lincoln said, "So you're the little woman who wrote the book that caused this great war." There are so many things to fault Stowe for. In our politically correct culture, all of the faults of Stowe's novel are incredibly salient: she co-opts many racial stereotypes from the minstrel stage. Influenced by romantic racialism, she sees all blacks as simple, docile, childlike, and innately Christian. She sees people who are bi-racial, on the other hand, as intelligent and discontent with their position in slavery because of the "Anglo-Saxon blood" that is flowing through their veins. But I think that what is important to focus on in Uncle Tom's Cabin is the way that Stowe created an inherently domestic attack on slavery by associating slavery with the public sphere of economy and capitalism and slaves with the domestic sphere of womanhood and Christianity. Stowe was writing during the time of the cult of true womanhood. In the nineteenth century, women were supposed to be (sexually) pure, (religiously) pious, domestic (staying in the house / kitchen), and submissive (to men). Stowe believed in these prescriptive categories for women (as you can see through the characters of Mrs. Shelby and Mrs. Bird). To her, the best people in the world are mothers and Christians, and Christ himself is a mother-figure; he is pure, pious, domestic, and submissive. In Uncle Tom's Cabin, Eva and Uncle Tom are both Christ figures and mother figures because mother and Christ are interchangeable. They are the best type of people in the world. The Quaker Settlement, where Rachel Halliday gentle nudges her family to work in harmony in a Christian matriarchy is Stowe's vision of a millennial utopia. Slavery is evil for Stowe because it is the opposite of Christianity. Christianity is domestic and spiritual, and slavery is a part of the public sphere; it is mundane. Appealing to white Northern women, Stowe shows how slavery creates problems for women: it separates mothers from their children and wives from their husbands. It is bad for the slaveholders because it corrupts them morally. Stowe also attacks the North for their culpability in Slavery. Through the character of Miss Ophelia, she shows that Northerners, while the want slaves to be free, do not want to come near black people with a ten foot pole. They have a visceral reaction to blackness. Through the Fugitive Slave Law, Northerners are helping Southerners to return blacks to slavery. Lobbying for the inclusion of Uncle Tom's Cabin in the literary canon, Jane Tompkins says of the novel in Sensational Design, that it "retells the culture's central religious myth - the story of the crucifixion - in terms of the nation's greatest political conflict - slavery - and of its most cherished social beliefs - the sanctity of motherhood and the family." I have read several editions of this novel, and I would highly recommend the Norton Critical edition, edited by Elizabeth Ammons (Tufts University) or the new Annotated edition, edited and annotated by Henry Lewis Gates, Jr. (Harvard University). Like all Norton editions, Ammons's version includes important contextual information as well as some of the seminal scholarly essays about the novel. In the annotated version, Gates gives two lengthy introductions and useful annotations. One thing that he mentions throughout the annotations is the way that Stowe depicts Tom's relationship with Chloe. According to Gates he seem not to be very affected by their separation; when he reminisces about the past, he thinks about the white children that he misses, George Shelby and Eva St. Clare.
Review: Who is Uncle Tom? A Christian saint - I recently read Uncle Tom's Cabin for the first time after hearing remarks in passing on NPR that Uncle Tom was a very different character from the stereotype that currently exists. Harriet Beecher Stowe is an excellent writer. She is vehemently anti-slavery and sprinkles her story with editorial pleas to the reader. But I tried to understand who Uncle Tom was, and found my thoughts evolving as I went along. The book contained characters who were "Uncle Toms" but he was not one of them. At first I thought he was just a simple minded person who "went with the flow." But as the story evolved, I could see that he was more than that. He was kind and thoughtful to whites, and tried to see the best in them. But he was also kind and thoughtful to blacks, and tried to see the best in them as well. He was, I realized, kind and thoughtful to other human beings in general. But as I read further, I came to see that the key to Uncle Tom was his powerful faith in redemption through Christ. He believed that whites, blacks, slaveholders and slaves should reach out and accept the Grace of God through Christ. Interestingly, although Uncle Tom's Cabin is an anti-slavery philippic, Uncle Tom himself does not denounce slavery. He would like to be free, but even more important is the embrace of Christ. Once Christ has been truly embraced, slavery becomes a non-sequitur that fades like mist before Christ's shining light. My view of "Uncle Tom" had undergone quite an interesting conceptual evolution. However, the transfiguration was not yet complete. Thinking further about the course of events, I realized that Uncle Tom was worthy of beatification, if not canonization. His profound faith converted and saved unrepentant sinners who were on the tortuous road to Hell. At the end of the novel, he fell into the clutches of a slaveholder who was the devil incarnate. The devil tempted him as he had tempted Christ in the desert, but here, rather than mastery of the world, the promise was of better treatment (if you become my overseer you can drink whiskey with me and lord over the other slaves.) As with Christ in the wilderness, Uncle Tom replied, "Get thee behind me, Satan!" For this, he was delivered up to Satan's minions where he suffered abuse, torture and death. In death, Uncle Tom imparts his final grace. His injuries were cared for by a slave woman who had been horribly abused by Satan, lost all faith and turned to the path of darkness. She risked her life to do this and in the process rediscovered her faith and her salvation. In effect, she was reborn. The minions who delivered the blows cowered before his grace and were converted, like the Roman soldiers at the foot of the Cross. Finally, Uncle Tom was found on death's door by the son of the kind master who was forced to sell him "down the river" at the beginning of the book. He had come to purchase Uncle Tom back and return him to his slave wife and children, back at home. In Uncle Tom's dying words, this young man came to see that even kindly treatment in slavery is wrong. He freed all the remaining slaves on his return home, and set upon a new path of Christian righteousness. Uncle Tom's Cabin is a remarkable book that can be read and interpreted on many different levels. The book should serve as an important touchstone for discussions of race and religion even today.

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| Best Sellers Rank | #82,686 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #279 in Classic American Literature #1,661 in Classic Literature & Fiction #3,469 in Literary Fiction (Books) |
| Customer Reviews | 4.7 4.7 out of 5 stars (1,506) |
| Dimensions  | 5.12 x 0.79 x 8.27 inches |
| Edition  | 1st |
| ISBN-10  | 0486440281 |
| ISBN-13  | 978-0486440286 |
| Item Weight  | 10.4 ounces |
| Language  | English |
| Print length  | 384 pages |
| Publication date  | August 1, 2005 |
| Publisher  | Dover Publications |
| Reading age  | 18 years and up |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ An important read for understanding American history.
*by M***R on December 20, 2008*

I have a love / hate relationship with the novel. Some days, I think that Stowe is unforgivably racist and cares only about preserving the souls of white people who are forfeiting their place in heaven by owning slaves. On other days, I am really impressed by the way that Stowe is working within many of the discourses of her time and creating a radical message about why slavery is unchristian, unpatriotic and unwomanly. Of course, everyone knows that Uncle Tom's Cabin was the best-selling book of its time, outselling even the Bible. It sold over 1,000,000 copies, and, for every copy sold, about 10 people read the book. For every person who read the book, about 50 saw a dramatic adaptation (possibly one of the versions by Aiken or Conway, which took away much of Stowe's message and retained mostly the melodrama and racial stereotypes). Nineteenth century America was steeped in Uncle Tom's Cabin. It was the first book to have spin-off products that are common for films today - actions figures, tea sets, dolls, board games, card games, sheet music. Uncle Tom's Cabin permeated American culture. It is speciously reported that, upon meeting Stowe during the Civil War, President Lincoln said, "So you're the little woman who wrote the book that caused this great war." There are so many things to fault Stowe for. In our politically correct culture, all of the faults of Stowe's novel are incredibly salient: she co-opts many racial stereotypes from the minstrel stage. Influenced by romantic racialism, she sees all blacks as simple, docile, childlike, and innately Christian. She sees people who are bi-racial, on the other hand, as intelligent and discontent with their position in slavery because of the "Anglo-Saxon blood" that is flowing through their veins. But I think that what is important to focus on in Uncle Tom's Cabin is the way that Stowe created an inherently domestic attack on slavery by associating slavery with the public sphere of economy and capitalism and slaves with the domestic sphere of womanhood and Christianity. Stowe was writing during the time of the cult of true womanhood. In the nineteenth century, women were supposed to be (sexually) pure, (religiously) pious, domestic (staying in the house / kitchen), and submissive (to men). Stowe believed in these prescriptive categories for women (as you can see through the characters of Mrs. Shelby and Mrs. Bird). To her, the best people in the world are mothers and Christians, and Christ himself is a mother-figure; he is pure, pious, domestic, and submissive. In Uncle Tom's Cabin, Eva and Uncle Tom are both Christ figures and mother figures because mother and Christ are interchangeable. They are the best type of people in the world. The Quaker Settlement, where Rachel Halliday gentle nudges her family to work in harmony in a Christian matriarchy is Stowe's vision of a millennial utopia. Slavery is evil for Stowe because it is the opposite of Christianity. Christianity is domestic and spiritual, and slavery is a part of the public sphere; it is mundane. Appealing to white Northern women, Stowe shows how slavery creates problems for women: it separates mothers from their children and wives from their husbands. It is bad for the slaveholders because it corrupts them morally. Stowe also attacks the North for their culpability in Slavery. Through the character of Miss Ophelia, she shows that Northerners, while the want slaves to be free, do not want to come near black people with a ten foot pole. They have a visceral reaction to blackness. Through the Fugitive Slave Law, Northerners are helping Southerners to return blacks to slavery. Lobbying for the inclusion of Uncle Tom's Cabin in the literary canon, Jane Tompkins says of the novel in Sensational Design, that it "retells the culture's central religious myth - the story of the crucifixion - in terms of the nation's greatest political conflict - slavery - and of its most cherished social beliefs - the sanctity of motherhood and the family." I have read several editions of this novel, and I would highly recommend the Norton Critical edition, edited by Elizabeth Ammons (Tufts University) or the new Annotated edition, edited and annotated by Henry Lewis Gates, Jr. (Harvard University). Like all Norton editions, Ammons's version includes important contextual information as well as some of the seminal scholarly essays about the novel. In the annotated version, Gates gives two lengthy introductions and useful annotations. One thing that he mentions throughout the annotations is the way that Stowe depicts Tom's relationship with Chloe. According to Gates he seem not to be very affected by their separation; when he reminisces about the past, he thinks about the white children that he misses, George Shelby and Eva St. Clare.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Who is Uncle Tom? A Christian saint
*by K***S on January 4, 2013*

I recently read Uncle Tom's Cabin for the first time after hearing remarks in passing on NPR that Uncle Tom was a very different character from the stereotype that currently exists. Harriet Beecher Stowe is an excellent writer. She is vehemently anti-slavery and sprinkles her story with editorial pleas to the reader. But I tried to understand who Uncle Tom was, and found my thoughts evolving as I went along. The book contained characters who were "Uncle Toms" but he was not one of them. At first I thought he was just a simple minded person who "went with the flow." But as the story evolved, I could see that he was more than that. He was kind and thoughtful to whites, and tried to see the best in them. But he was also kind and thoughtful to blacks, and tried to see the best in them as well. He was, I realized, kind and thoughtful to other human beings in general. But as I read further, I came to see that the key to Uncle Tom was his powerful faith in redemption through Christ. He believed that whites, blacks, slaveholders and slaves should reach out and accept the Grace of God through Christ. Interestingly, although Uncle Tom's Cabin is an anti-slavery philippic, Uncle Tom himself does not denounce slavery. He would like to be free, but even more important is the embrace of Christ. Once Christ has been truly embraced, slavery becomes a non-sequitur that fades like mist before Christ's shining light. My view of "Uncle Tom" had undergone quite an interesting conceptual evolution. However, the transfiguration was not yet complete. Thinking further about the course of events, I realized that Uncle Tom was worthy of beatification, if not canonization. His profound faith converted and saved unrepentant sinners who were on the tortuous road to Hell. At the end of the novel, he fell into the clutches of a slaveholder who was the devil incarnate. The devil tempted him as he had tempted Christ in the desert, but here, rather than mastery of the world, the promise was of better treatment (if you become my overseer you can drink whiskey with me and lord over the other slaves.) As with Christ in the wilderness, Uncle Tom replied, "Get thee behind me, Satan!" For this, he was delivered up to Satan's minions where he suffered abuse, torture and death. In death, Uncle Tom imparts his final grace. His injuries were cared for by a slave woman who had been horribly abused by Satan, lost all faith and turned to the path of darkness. She risked her life to do this and in the process rediscovered her faith and her salvation. In effect, she was reborn. The minions who delivered the blows cowered before his grace and were converted, like the Roman soldiers at the foot of the Cross. Finally, Uncle Tom was found on death's door by the son of the kind master who was forced to sell him "down the river" at the beginning of the book. He had come to purchase Uncle Tom back and return him to his slave wife and children, back at home. In Uncle Tom's dying words, this young man came to see that even kindly treatment in slavery is wrong. He freed all the remaining slaves on his return home, and set upon a new path of Christian righteousness. Uncle Tom's Cabin is a remarkable book that can be read and interpreted on many different levels. The book should serve as an important touchstone for discussions of race and religion even today.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Review
*by J***D on July 21, 2024*

i have liked the book from cover to cover. well written and described well the feelings of humans towards the black slaves and also towards other white men.

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