Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly, Vol. I
date: label: date made
content: 1852
name: label: author
content: Stowe, Harriet Beecher
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content: John P. Jewett and Co.
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Volume 1 of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom's Cabin, or, Life among the Lowly, published by Jewett, Proctor & Worthington, 1852 (Sixtieth Thousand Edition).
label: Description (Brief)
content: Uncle Tom’s Cabin was among the most influential books in American History, and was one of the best-selling books of the 19th century. Author Harriet Beecher Stowe’s sentimental tale of enslaved people living under, suffering through, and escaping from the brutal reality of plantation slavery shined new light on the nation’s most potent political issue. First published as a series in the National Era magazine, then published as a book which sold 300,000 copies in its first year, Uncle Tom’s Cabin outraged slavery’s supporters and helped popularize political opposition to slavery. In the following decades, melodramatic Tom shows based on the book focused on theatrical spectacle and reduced its characters to stereotypes, losing the political message of the book.
place: label: place made
content: United States: Massachusetts, Boston
topic: label: Subject
content: Literature
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content: Slavery
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content: Uncle Tom
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content: Books
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content: Popular Culture
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content: Culture and the Arts: Entertainment
label: Exhibition
content: Entertainment Nation
label: Exhibition Location
content: National Museum of American History
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2016.0042.01
label: accession number
content: 2016.0042
label: catalog number
content: 2016.0042.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: book
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
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content: ink (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 7 3/4 in x 4 3/4 in x 1 1/4 in; 19.685 cm x 12.065 cm x 3.175 cm