Uncle Tom's cabin
By: Harriet Beecher Stowe ; edited with an introduction and notes by Jean Fagan Yellin.
Contributors: Yellin, Jean Fagan.
Series: Oxford world's classics; Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 536
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: Labeled racist and condescending by some contemporary critics, this novel remains a shocking, controversial, and powerful work that exposes the attitudes of white 19th century society toward the institution of slavery.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [xxix]-xxxi).