Writing Women


Title page from First Edition of Uncle Tom's Cabin, 1852

Title page from First Edition of Uncle Tom's Cabin, 1852
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Bowdoin College Library

"Uncle Tom's Cabin" is the story of a benevolent slave owner who ends up selling some of his slaves to a heartless slave trader. In their new environments, the slaves suffer a variety of abuses. Some escape.

The book was first published in serial form and was a tremendous success then and as a book.

However, Stowe and the book also were criticized as inaccurate. Stowe also published a compendium of her sources for the book in an effort to defend her fictional story as accurate.

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