Uncle Tom's Cabin (version 2)

Author(s)

• Harriet Beecher Stowe

This is a deeply moving novel centered around the lives of Uncle Tom and others and which very effectively portrays the suffering caused by the practice of slavery in the American South, prior to and during the time of the Civil War.

It also provides a fascinating character study of a wide variety of people, including various slave owners, families of slave owners, traders, bystanders, the slaves themselves, and participants in the underground railroad. On one hand there is the ignorance, false mindsets, indifference and even blatant cruelty and abuse on the part of some, and on the other hand there is great love and compassion and sacrifice on the part of others. This was the best-selling novel of the 19th Century and is said to have helped fuel the cause of the abolitionists. (Summary by Larraine Paquette and Wikipedia)

1. In Which the Reader is Introduced to a Man of Humanity
2. The Mother
3. The Husband and Father
4. An Evening in Uncle Tom's Cabin
5. Showing the Feelings of Living Property on Changing Owners
6. Discovery
7. The Mother's Struggle
8. Eliza's Escape
9. In Which It Appears That a Senator is But a Man
10. The Property is Carried Off
11. In Which Property Gets into an Improper State of Mind
12. Select Incident of Lawful Trade
13. The Quaker Settlement
14. Evangeline
15. Of Tom's New Master, and Various Other Matters
16. Tom's Mistress and Her Opinions
17. The Freeman's Defence
18. Miss Ophelia's Experiences and Opinions
19. Miss Ophelia's Experiences and Opinions Continued
20. Topsy
21. Kentuck
22. "The Grass Withereth- the Flower Fadeth"
23. Henrique
24. Foreshadowings
25. The Little Evangelist
26. Death
27. "This is the Last of Earth"
28. Reunion
29. The Unprotected
30. The Slave Warehouse
31. The Middle Passage
32. Dark Places
33. Cassy
34. The Quadroon's Story
35. The Tokens
36. Emmeline and Cassy
37. Liberty
38. The Victory
39. The Stratagem
40. The Martyr
41. The Young Master
42. An Authentic Ghost Story
43. Results
44. The Liberator
45. Concluding Remarks