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Title page Title page from "Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly"
1852
L05.080
Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin" galvanized Northern public opinion against the institution of slavery in the decade preceding the Civil War.
Title page Excerpts from "A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin Presenting the Original Facts and Documents Upon Which the Story is Founded"
1853
L05.081
A year after she published her novel, "Uncle Tom's Cabin," Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote the "Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin" in response to her critic's charge that she exaggerated the horrors of slavery.
Title page "A Moral Tale"
1800
L00.035
This English translation of a French play provided American readers with a romantic model of feminine virtue.

 

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