Uncle Tom's cabin.
By: Introduced by Howard Mumford Jones.
Series: Charles E. Merrill program in American literature; Charles E. Merrill standard editions.
Publisher: C. E. Merrill Pub. Co.; Brown Book Co; Brand: Brown Book Co
Published: 1969
Place of publication: Columbus, Ohio
Language: eng
Number of pages: 322
Subjects: Uncle Tom (Fictitious character) -- Fiction; Master and servant -- Fiction; African Americans -- Fiction; Fugitive slaves -- Fiction; Plantation life -- Fiction; Slavery -- Fiction; Slaves -- Fiction; Southern States -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: Eliza Harris, a slave whose child is to be sold, escapes her beloved home on the Shelby plantation in Kentucky and heads North, eludes the hired slave catachers and is aided by the underground railroad. Another slave, Uncle Tom, is sent "down the river" for sale and ultimately endures a martyr's death under the whips of Simon Legree's overseers.