query: when was uncle toms cabin published in book form

pos: Uncle Tom's Cabin Tom's Cabin". Major collections of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" books, ephemera, and artifacts reside at the Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library at the University of Virginia and the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin. Uncle Tom's Cabin Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly, is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. Published in 1852, the novel had a profound effect on attitudes toward African Americans and slavery in the U.S. and is said to have "helped lay the groundwork for the Civil War". Stowe, a Connecticut-born teacher at the Hartford Female

pos: Harriet Beecher Stowe not be silent." Shortly after in June, 1851, when she was 40, the first installment of her "Uncle Tom's Cabin" was published in serial form in the newspaper "The National Era". She originally used the subtitle "The Man That Was A Thing", but it was soon changed to "Life Among the Lowly". Installments were published weekly from June 5, 1851, to April 1, 1852. For the newspaper serialization of her novel, Stowe was paid $400. "Uncle Tom's Cabin" was published in book form on March 20, 1852, by John P. Jewett with an initial print run of 5,000 copies. Each

pos: Uncle Tom's Cabin instantly popular, such that several protests were sent to the "Era" office when she missed an issue. Because of the story's popularity, the publisher John P. Jewett contacted Stowe about turning the serial into a book. While Stowe questioned if anyone would read "Uncle Tom's Cabin" in book form, she eventually consented to the request. Convinced the book would be popular, Jewett made the unusual decision (for the time) to have six full-page illustrations by Hammatt Billings engraved for the first printing. Published in book form on March 20, 1852, the novel sold 3,000 copies on that day alone, and

pos: A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin is a book by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. It was published to document the veracity of the depiction of slavery in Stowe's anti-slavery novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin" (1852). First published in 1853 by Jewett, Proctor & Worthington, the book also provides insights into Stowe's own views on slavery. After the publication of "Uncle Tom's Cabin", Southerners accused Stowe of misrepresenting slavery. In order to show that she had neither lied about slavery nor exaggerated the plight of enslaved people, she compiled "A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin".

pos: Anti-Tom literature Anti-Tom literature Anti-Tom literature refers to the 19th century pro-slavery novels and other literary works written in response to Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin". Also called plantation literature, these writings were generally written by authors from the Southern United States. Books in the genre attempted to show either that slavery was beneficial to African Americans or that the evils of slavery as depicted in Stowe's book were overblown and incorrect. First published in serialized form from 1851–52 (in the abolitionist journal "The National Era"), and in book form in 1852, "Uncle Tom's Cabin" by Harriet Beecher Stowe quickly became

pos: Onkel Toms Hütte (Berlin U-Bahn) These huts were referred to as "Tom's Cabins", which reminded many of the famous book. Over the years the estate, the station, even the cinema and the "" took on the name as well. The pub was demolished in 1979. Onkel Toms Hütte (Berlin U-Bahn) The station was designed by , and was placed in service on 22 December 1929 as the centre of the modernist "" housing estate, built between 1926 and 1932 by architects , and others. Two strip malls and a small cinema were added in 1932. The area was named after "Uncle Tom's Cabin", the 1852

pos: White Acre vs. Black Acre to see which side will be the most prosperous. The novel was released in book form in 1856, and was printed by the same publishers of an earlier anti-Tom novel, "Uncle Robin, in His Cabin in Virginia, and Tom Without One in Boston" by J.W. Page (1853). White Acre vs. Black Acre White Acre vs. Black Acre is an 1856 plantation fiction novel written by William M. Burwell. "White Acre vs. Black Acre" is one of several pro-slavery novels published in the Southern United States in response to "Uncle Tom's Cabin" by Harriet Beecher Stowe, published in 1852. Burwell's novel,

pos: Uncle Robin, in His Cabin in Virginia, and Tom Without One in Boston Uncle Robin, in His Cabin in Virginia, and Tom Without One in Boston Uncle Robin, in His Cabin in Virginia, and Tom Without One in Boston (sometimes shortened to simply Uncle Robin's Cabin) is an 1853 novel written by J.W. Page and released by J. W. Randolph Publishers of Richmond, Virginia. "Uncle Robin" is one of several examples of the pro-slavery anti-Tom or plantation literature genre that emerged in the Southern United States. They were written in response to the publication of the bestselling abolitionist novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin", released in book form in 1852, and were read both in

pos: The Cabin and Parlor; or, Slaves and Masters The Cabin and Parlor; or, Slaves and Masters The Cabin and Parlor; or, Slaves and Masters is an 1852 novel written by Charles Jacobs Peterson under the pseudonym of J. Thornton Randolph. "The Cabin and Parlor" is an example of the pro-slavery plantation literature genre that emerged from the Southern United States in response to the abolitionist novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin" by Harriet Beecher Stowe, which had been published in book form in that year, and had been criticised in the Southern United States for exaggerating the workings of slaveholding. Whereas the majority of anti-Tom novels focussed on the evils

pos: Solomon Northup believing they could be complicit. Later that same year, Solomon Northup wrote and published his memoir, "Twelve Years a Slave" (1853). The book was written in three months with the help of David Wilson, a local writer and journalist. Published by Derby & Miller of Auburn, New York In the period when questions of slavery generated debate and the novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin" (1852) by Harriet Beecher Stowe was a bestseller, Northup's book sold 30,000 copies within three years, also becoming a bestseller. When the book and case were publicized, Thaddeus St. John, a county court judge in nearby Fonda,

pos: Onkel Toms Hütte (Berlin U-Bahn) Onkel Toms Hütte (Berlin U-Bahn) The station was designed by , and was placed in service on 22 December 1929 as the centre of the modernist "" housing estate, built between 1926 and 1932 by architects , and others. Two strip malls and a small cinema were added in 1932. The area was named after "Uncle Tom's Cabin", the 1852 anti-slavery novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe. In 1885 a local landlord named "Thomas" opened a public house at the southern rim of the forest and installed several small huts in his beer garden to shelter his guests from the rain.

pos: Gone with the Wind (novel) days beyond recall". Micki McElya, in her book "Clinging to Mammy", suggests the myth of the faithful slave, in the figure of Mammy, lingered because white Americans wished to live in a world in which African Americans were not angry over the injustice of slavery. The best-selling anti-slavery novel from the 19th century is "Uncle Tom's Cabin" by Harriet Beecher Stowe, published in 1852. "Uncle Tom's Cabin" is mentioned briefly in "Gone with the Wind" as being accepted by the Yankees as "revelation second only to the Bible". The enduring interest of both "Uncle Tom's Cabin" and "Gone with the

pos: Aunt Phillis's Cabin copies within the first weeks of publication. "Aunt Phillis's Cabin" was released in 1852 – the same year that "Uncle Tom's Cabin" appeared in book form – by Lippincott, Grambo & Co. of Philadelphia (better known as J. B. Lippincott & Co.) As a major publishing house, the company released other anti-Tom novels, including "" by Martha Haines Butt (1853), and "Mr. Frank, the Underground Mail-Agent" by Vidi (1853). Aunt Phillis's Cabin Aunt Phillis's Cabin; or, Southern Life As It Is by Mary Henderson Eastman is a plantation fiction novel, and is perhaps the most read anti-Tom novel in American

pos: Uncle Tom's Cabin her insolence, and her ambition. All parties hailed Mrs. Stowe as a revolter from the enemy." Charles Francis Adams, the American minister to Britain during the war, argued later that ""Uncle Tom's Cabin"; or "Life among the Lowly", published in 1852, exercised, largely from fortuitous circumstances, a more immediate, considerable and dramatic world-influence than any other book ever printed." A French edition, translated by M. L. Carion (or by [Anne-]Louise Swanton-Belloc?, 1796–1881), appeared by 1853 published in Cambrai and in Paris. By 1857, the novel had been translated into 20 languages, including two independent translations into Slovene just one year

pos: John P. Jewett John P. Jewett John Punchard Jewett (1814–1884) was a Boston publisher, best known for first publishing "Uncle Tom's Cabin" in book form in 1852. Jewett started a business in Boston publishing textbooks and religious textbooks in 1846. He also began to publish anti-slavery pieces. By 1851 he had also moved into fiction, publishing "The Sunny Side" by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (the mother of Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward). In late 1851, along with his half-brother H.P.B. Jewett and partners Proctor and Worthington, he formed a second publishing business in Cleveland, which took on the responsibility of selling "Uncle Tom's Cabin" in

pos: Uncle Tom a Jesus-like figure who is ultimately martyred, beaten to death by a cruel master because he refuses to betray the whereabouts of two women who had escaped from slavery. Stowe reversed the gender conventions of slave narratives by juxtaposing Uncle Tom's passivity against the daring of three African American women who escape from slavery. The novel was both influential and commercially successful, published as a serial from 1851 to 1852 and as a book from 1852 onward. An estimated 500,000 copies had sold worldwide by 1853, including unauthorized reprints. Senator Charles Sumner credited "Uncle Tom's Cabin" for the election of

pos: James Sherman (minister) William Allen. Of political significance in the 1850s was a semi-fictional book written on one side of the Atlantic, to which James Sherman contributed an introduction written on the other. This was "Uncle Tom's Cabin", by the American Congregationalist Harriet Beecher Stowe, with Sherman's introduction from London. The number of copies of the work sold was unprecedented in American literature. It was written in serial form for "The National Era", an abolitionist newspaper, in 1851. When it appeared as a two volume work by March 1852, with Sherman's introduction, it quickly became a historic work. For the book's promotional tour

pos: History of women in the United States herself had endured as a slave. In 1852, Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote the abolitionist book "Uncle Tom's Cabin". Begun as a serial for the Washington anti-slavery weekly, the National Era, the book focused public interest on the issue of slavery, and was deeply controversial for its strong anti-slavery stance at the time it was written. In writing the book, Stowe drew on her personal experience: she was familiar with slavery, the antislavery movement, and the Underground Railroad because Kentucky, across the Ohio River from Cincinnati, Ohio, where Stowe had lived, was a slave state. "Uncle Tom's Cabin" was a best-seller,

pos: Tabitha Gilman Tenney Tabitha Gilman Tenney Tabitha Gilman Tenney (1762–1837) was an early American author from Exeter, New Hampshire. Her novel "Female Quixotism, Exhibited in the Romantic Opinions and Extravagant Adventures of Dorcasina Sheldon", which followed Cervantes in attacking the delusions encouraged by romantic literature, was first published in two volumes in 1801. Literary historian F. L. Patee has described "Female Quixotism" (1801) as the most popular novel written in America prior to the publication of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" in 1852. "Female Quixotism" went through at least five editions and was still in print when Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote her landmark book. In

pos: Uncle Tom's Cabin was not until Ticknor and Fields put the work back in print in November 1862 that demand began again to increase. The book was translated into all major languages, and in the United States it became the second best-selling book after the Bible. A number of the early editions carried an introduction by Rev James Sherman, a Congregational minister in London noted for his abolitionist views. "Uncle Tom's Cabin" sold equally well in Britain, with the first London edition appearing in May 1852 and selling 200,000 copies. In a few years over 1.5 million copies of the book were in

pos: Uncle Tom's Cabin Uncle Tom's Cabin Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly, is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. Published in 1852, the novel had a profound effect on attitudes toward African Americans and slavery in the U.S. and is said to have "helped lay the groundwork for the Civil War". Stowe, a Connecticut-born teacher at the Hartford Female Seminary and an active abolitionist, featured the character of Uncle Tom, a long-suffering black slave around whom the stories of other characters revolve. The sentimental novel depicts the reality of slavery while also asserting that Christian love can overcome

pos: Judah P. Benjamin in which the slaves of what became Haiti killed many whites and mulattoes in 1804 while gaining independence from French control. When the anti-slavery book "Uncle Tom's Cabin" was published in 1852, Benjamin spoke out against Harriet Beecher Stowe's portrayal. He said that slaves were for the most part well treated, and plantation punishments, such as whipping or branding, were more merciful than sentences of imprisonment that a white man might receive in the North for similar conduct. In early 1854, Senator Douglas introduced his Kansas–Nebraska Bill, calling for popular sovereignty to determine whether the Kansas and Nebraska territories should

pos: The Impending Crisis of the South The Impending Crisis of the South The Impending Crisis of the South: How to Meet It is an 1857 book written by Hinton Rowan Helper of North Carolina, which he self-published in New York City. It was a strong attack on slavery as inefficient and a barrier to the economic advancement of whites. The book was widely distributed by Horace Greeley and other antislavery leaders, and infuriated Southern leaders. The book condemned slavery, but did not take what Helper considered to be the ineffectually sentimental or moralistic abolitionist approach (as seen in "Uncle Tom's Cabin", 1852): Hinton explicitly wrote "not

pos: "Uncle Tom's Cabin" Contrasted with Buckingham Hall, the Planter's Home as vicious sadists, even though he is not. Likewise Dr. Tennyson - Julia's father and a Scotsman - objects because he supports the view of all planters as violent and cruel. The Tennysons eventually make their way to South Carolina from New York, and after several philosophical discussions regarding American slavery, Eugene and Julia are allowed to marry. The story ends as the newlyweds embark on a ship to England for their honeymoon. The novel was first published in 1852 in hardback form by D. Fanshaw of New York City. It has been recently reprinted by Kessinger Publishing. "Uncle Tom's

pos: Aunt Phillis's Cabin Aunt Phillis's Cabin Aunt Phillis's Cabin; or, Southern Life As It Is by Mary Henderson Eastman is a plantation fiction novel, and is perhaps the most read anti-Tom novel in American literature. It was published by Lippincott, Grambo & Co. of Philadelphia in 1852 as a response to Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin", published earlier that year. The novel sold 20,000–30,000 copies, making it a strong commercial success and bestseller. Based on her growing up in Warrenton, Virginia of an elite planter family, Eastman portrays plantation owners and slaves as mutually respectful, kind, and happy beings. Published in 1852,

pos: The History of Little Henry and his Bearer half of the nineteenth century, until 1852 when "Uncle Tom's Cabin" superseded it. One scholar has suggested that Harriet Beecher Stowe used Henry as a model for "Little Eva" in her novel, but Regaignon argues that racial histories underlying the two countries are too different for this influence to make much sense. In 1842 Sherwood published "The Last Days of Boosy", a sequel to "Little Henry". As Regaignon explains, it is "markedly different" in "style, tone, and doctrine" from the previous book. It does not cite the Bible as frequently and God is depicted much less sternly. While "Little Henry"

pos: Tom show "Tom shows" were so popular that there were even pro-slavery versions. Among the most popular was "Uncle Tom's Cabin as It Is: The Southern Uncle Tom", produced in 1852 at the Baltimore Museum. Lott mentions numerous "offshoots, parodies, thefts, and rebuttals" including a full-scale play by Christy's Minstrels and a parody by Conway himself called "Uncle Pat's Cabin", and records that the story in its many variants "dominated northern popular culture… for several years". According to Eric Lott, even those "Tom shows" which stayed relatively close to Stowe's novel played down the feminist aspects of the book and Stowe's criticisms

pos: Twelve Years a Slave details on the slave markets in Washington, D.C. and New Orleans, and describes at length cotton and sugar cultivation and slave treatment on major plantations in Louisiana. The work was published eight years before the Civil War by Derby & Miller of Auburn, New York, soon after Harriet Beecher Stowe's best-selling novel about slavery, "Uncle Tom's Cabin" (1852), to which it lent factual support. Northup's book, dedicated to Stowe, sold 30,000 copies, making it a bestseller in its own right. After being published in several editions in the 19th century and later cited by specialist scholarly works on slavery in

pos: Samuel Orchart Beeton Samuel Orchart Beeton Samuel Orchart Beeton (2 March 1830 – 6 June 1877) was an English publisher, best known as the husband of Mrs Beeton (Isabella Mary Mayson) and publisher of "Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management". He also founded and published "Boy's Own Magazine" (1855–90), the first and most influential boys' magazine. Beeton made money as the first British publisher of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" in 1852, securing the rights from the then-unknown Harriet Beecher Stowe. He launched "The Englishwoman's Domestic Magazine", a pioneering serial for middle-class women, the same year. His "Boy's Own Magazine", published in the UK from

pos: The Life of Josiah Henson, Formerly a Slave, Now an Inhabitant of Canada, as Narrated by Himself "The Life of Josiah Henson, formerly a Slave: As Narrated by Himself". It has now been reproduced by various publishing companies including Applewood Biks () and Dover Publications (). After the publication was released in 1849 it received little public attention until Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel, "Uncle Tom's Cabin", was published in 1852. Soon after it became widely believed, and Stowe confirmed the connection, that Hensen's book and life experience was a major source of her work. This slave narrative, begins with an 'Advertisement.' In the case of this book, the use of the word Advertisement is not to introduce

pos: Combination company may have contributed to the success of touring companies (Londré). Many early touring companies found success by exclusively performing renditions of the immensely popular Uncle Tom's Cabin, an anti-slavery novel published in 1852 by Harriet Beecher Stowe. In 1927, 75 years after Uncle Tom's Cabin had been published, these renditions, known as Tom Shows (Londré), were still being performed exclusively by twelve combination companies worldwide (Somerset-Ward). Most of the combination companies in the United States rehearsed and began their tours in New York City, which contributed to the early success of what would eventually be known as Broadway theatre. The

pos: Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ soul for a thousand years of life as a man." Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ is a novel by Lew Wallace published by Harper and Brothers on November 12, 1880, and considered "the most influential Christian book of the nineteenth century". It became a best-selling American novel, surpassing Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin" (1852) in sales. The book also inspired other novels with biblical settings and was adapted for the stage and motion picture productions. "Ben-Hur" remained at the top of the US all-time bestseller list until the publication of Margaret Mitchell's

pos: Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ is a novel by Lew Wallace published by Harper and Brothers on November 12, 1880, and considered "the most influential Christian book of the nineteenth century". It became a best-selling American novel, surpassing Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin" (1852) in sales. The book also inspired other novels with biblical settings and was adapted for the stage and motion picture productions. "Ben-Hur" remained at the top of the US all-time bestseller list until the publication of Margaret Mitchell's "Gone with the Wind" (1936). The 1959 MGM film adaptation

pos: Uncle Tom's Cabin (1918 film) Uncle Tom's Cabin (1918 film) Uncle Tom's Cabin was a 1918 American silent drama film directed by J. Searle Dawley, produced by Famous Players-Lasky Corporation and distributed by Paramount Pictures under the Famous Players-Lasky name. The film is based on Harriet Beecher Stowe's 1852 novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin" and George Aiken's eponymous play. "Uncle Tom's Cabin" starred Marguerite Clark, who portrayed both Topsy and Little Eva. It is now considered to be a lost film. As described in a film magazine, Uncle Tom (Losee) is on his way to the slave market. Eva St. Clair (Clark) and her father are

pos: Uncle Tom's Cabin readers. The power in this type of writing can be seen in the reaction of contemporary readers. Georgiana May, a friend of Stowe's, wrote a letter to the author, saying: "I was up last night long after one o'clock, reading and finishing "Uncle Tom's Cabin". I could not leave it any more than I could have left a dying child." Another reader is described as obsessing on the book at all hours and having considered renaming her daughter Eva. Evidently the death of Little Eva affected a lot of people at that time, because in 1852, 300 baby girls in

pos: Uncle Tom's Cabin (1910 film) I have seen Uncle Tom's Cabin played several times." "The Leavenworth Times" of Leavenworth, Kansas had an article reviewing the production and offered much praise for adaptation. Uncle Tom's Cabin (1910 film) Uncle Tom's Cabin is a 1910 American silent short drama produced by the Thanhouser Company. The film was adapted by from the 1852 novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin" by Harriet Beecher Stowe. The plot of the Thanhouser production streamlined the actual story to portray the film over the course of a single reel. The film was released on July 26, 1910, on the same day that Vitagraph released the

pos: Uncle Tom's Cabin (1910 film) Uncle Tom's Cabin (1910 film) Uncle Tom's Cabin is a 1910 American silent short drama produced by the Thanhouser Company. The film was adapted by from the 1852 novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin" by Harriet Beecher Stowe. The plot of the Thanhouser production streamlined the actual story to portray the film over the course of a single reel. The film was released on July 26, 1910, on the same day that Vitagraph released the first reel of their own three reel version of "Uncle Tom's Cabin". This prompted the Thanhouser Company to advertise against the Vitagraph film by referring to the

pos: Pickaninny slaves or (later) of dark-skinned African American citizens. While this use of the term was popularized in reference to the character of Topsy in the 1852 book "Uncle Tom's Cabin", the term was used as early as 1831 in an anti-slavery tract "The History of Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave, related by herself" published in Edinburgh, Scotland. The term was still in some use in the United States as late as the 1960s. The term piccaninny was used in colonial Australia for an Aboriginal child and is still in use in some Indigenous Kriol languages. In the Patois dialect

neg: A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin women, especially southern women, not to read Stowe’s productions. In spite of the varied reviews of "A Key to Uncle Tom’s Cabin", it sold quite well. It was a bestseller when it first came out, perhaps simply as a result of the obvious connection to "Uncle Tom’s Cabin", and Stowe’s celebrity. Although it never sold to the quantities of "Uncle Tom’s Cabin", it had sold 90,000 copies within a month of being published. A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin is a book by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. It was published to document the

neg: Uncle Tom's Cabin something as destructive as enslavement of fellow human beings. "Uncle Tom's Cabin" was the best-selling novel of the 19th century and the second best-selling book of that century, following the Bible. It is credited with helping fuel the abolitionist cause in the 1850s. In the first year after it was published, 300,000 copies of the book were sold in the United States; one million copies in Great Britain. In 1855, three years after it was published, it was called "the most popular novel of our day." The impact attributed to the book is great, reinforced by a story that when

neg: Uncle Tom's Cabin mentioned a number of the inspirations and sources for her novel in "A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin" (1853). This non-fiction book was intended to verify Stowe's claims about slavery. However, later research indicated that Stowe did not read many of the book's cited works until after she had published her novel. "Uncle Tom's Cabin" first appeared as a 40-week serial in "The National Era", an abolitionist periodical, starting with the June 5, 1851, issue. It was originally intended as a shorter narrative that would run for only a few weeks. Stowe expanded the story significantly, however, and it was

neg: Uncle Tom's Cabin and Melville." This view remains the subject of dispute. Writing in 2001, legal scholar Richard Posner described "Uncle Tom's Cabin" as part of the mediocre list of canonical works that emerges when political criteria are imposed on literature. "Uncle Tom's Cabin" has exerted an influence equaled by few other novels in history. Upon publication, "Uncle Tom's Cabin" ignited a firestorm of protest from defenders of slavery (who created a number of books in response to the novel) while the book elicited praise from abolitionists. As a best-seller, the novel heavily influenced later protest literature. "Uncle Tom's Cabin" outraged people in

neg: History of Cincinnati of the 19th century (and the second best-selling book of the century after the Bible) and is credited with helping to fuel the abolitionist cause in the United States prior to the American Civil War. In the first year after it was published, 300,000 copies of the book were sold. In his 1985 book "Uncle Tom's Cabin and American Culture", Thomas Gossett observed that "in 1872 a biographer of Horace Greeley would argue that the chief force in developing support for the Republican Party in the 1850s had been "Uncle Tom's Cabin"." The Harriet Beecher Stowe House in Cincinnati is

neg: Uncle Tom's Cabin Americans were a childlike people unable to live their lives without being directly overseen by white people. Among the most famous anti-Tom books are "The Sword and the Distaff" by William Gilmore Simms, "Aunt Phillis's Cabin" by Mary Henderson Eastman, and "The Planter's Northern Bride" by Caroline Lee Hentz, with the last author having been a close personal friend of Stowe's when the two lived in Cincinnati. Simms' book was published a few months after Stowe's novel, and it contains a number of sections and discussions disputing Stowe's book and her view of slavery. Hentz's 1854 novel, widely read at

neg: Uncle Tom's Cabin the time but now largely forgotten, offers a defense of slavery as seen through the eyes of a northern woman—the daughter of an abolitionist, no less—who marries a southern slave owner. In the decade between the publication of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" and the start of the American Civil War, between twenty and thirty anti-Tom books were published. Among these novels are two books titled "Uncle Tom's Cabin As It Is" (one by W. L. Smith and the other by C. H. Wiley) and a book by John Pendleton Kennedy. More than half of these anti-Tom books were written by white

neg: The Clansman: A Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan going as far as to rape a white woman, is the opposite of the benevolent Uncle Tom, who is portrayed as angelic. The books are also similar for the reactions they stirred up among their readers. "Uncle Tom's Cabin" was detested and banned throughout the South, while "The Clansman" was ranted against in Northern papers. Also like "Uncle Tom's Cabin", "The Clansman" reached its greatest audience not through its book form, which sold over 100,000 copies, but through the film that had an audience of millions. Thomas Dixon's novel did not have the immediate effect of causing the recreation of

neg: Utopian socialism People were expected to be motivated by a Religion of Solidarity and criminal behavior was treated as a form of mental illness or "atavism". The book ranked as second or third best seller of its time (after "Uncle Tom's Cabin" and "Ben Hur"). In 1897, Bellamy published a sequel entitled "Equality" as a reply to his critics and which lacked the Industrial Army and other authoritarian aspects. William Morris (1834–1896) published "News from Nowhere" in 1890, partly as a response to Bellamy's "Looking Backwards", which he equated with the socialism of Fabians such as Sydney Webb. Morris' vision of the

neg: A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin One English review of the 1853 publication called it a “marvelous book, more so if possible than "Uncle Tom’s Cabin" itself.” This same review also commends Stowe’s self-control and character. This impression of Stowe and the reception of the book is much different than the reaction to the "Key" in the South. The pro-slavery response to the "Key" paralleled the response to "Uncle Tom’s Cabin". Despite Stowe using documented examples to make the "Key" a verification of the truth of Stowe’s depiction of slavery in "Uncle Tom’s Cabin", most Southern reviews still claimed that Stowe was misrepresenting slavery and exaggerating

neg: A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin The book was subtitled "Presenting the Original Facts and Documents upon Which the Story Is Founded, Together with Corroborative Statements Verifying the Truth of the Work". The reaction of Stowe’s contemporaries to "A Key to Uncle Tom’s Cabin" was very similar to the reaction to "Uncle Tom’s Cabin", with both very positive and very negative reviews. The responses of abolitionists and Northerners in general were among the positive, lauding the proof of the evils of slavery and the confirmation of the truth of "Uncle Tom’s Cabin." The great interest in "Uncle Tom’s Cabin" in England also transferred to the "Key".

neg: Joaquin Miller audience members expecting a disastrous failure and instead discovering a good show: "The play proved to possess more than ordinary merit, and if it is not a great work, it is decidedly not a very bad one." "The Danites" was extended from a run of only a few days to one of seven straight weeks before moving to another theatre and, ultimately, was performed to such a degree that it rivaled the popularity of "Uncle Tom's Cabin". It was published in book form later in 1877. Miller later admitted that he regretted the anti-Mormon tone. Miller married for a third

neg: Uncle Tom's Cabin because "Uncle Tom's Cabin" was the best-selling novel in the world during the 19th century. As a result, the book (along with illustrations from the book and associated stage productions) was accused of playing a major role in permanently ingraining such stereotypes into the American psyche. In the 1960s and 1970s, the Black Power and Black Arts Movements attacked the novel, claiming that the character of Uncle Tom engaged in "race betrayal", and that Tom made slaves out to be worse than slave owners. Among the stereotypes of blacks in "Uncle Tom's Cabin" are the "happy darky" (in the lazy,

neg: Uncle Tom's Cabin Tom's Cabin" has been adapted several times as a film. Most of these movies were created during the silent film era ("Uncle Tom's Cabin" was the most-filmed book of that time period). Because of the continuing popularity of both the book and "Tom" shows, audiences were already familiar with the characters and the plot, making it easier for the film to be understood without spoken words. There has been no Hollywood treatment since the end of the silent era. The first film version of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" was one of the earliest full-length movies (although full-length at that time meant

neg: Film adaptations of Uncle Tom's Cabin "Uncle Tom's Cabin" was the most-filmed story of the silent film era with at least nine known adaptations between 1903 – 1927. This popularity was due to the continuing popularity of both the book and "Tom shows", meaning audiences were already familiar with the characters and the plot, making it easier for the film to be understood without spoken words. A number of movies have utilized characters, plots, and themes from "Uncle Tom's Cabin", including "An Uncle Tom's Cabin Troupe" (1913); the Duncan Sisters' "Topsy and Eva" (1927); "Uncle Tom's Uncle," a 1926 Our Gang episode which has the kids

neg: Uncle Tom's Cabin women, with Simms commenting at one point about the "Seemingly poetic justice of having the Northern woman (Stowe) answered by a Southern woman." Even though "Uncle Tom's Cabin" was the best-selling novel of the 19th century, far more Americans of that time saw the story as a stage play or musical than read the book. Eric Lott, in his book "Uncle Tomitudes: Racial Melodrama and Modes of Production", estimates that at least three million people saw these plays, ten times the book's first-year sales. Given the lax copyright laws of the time, stage plays based on "Uncle Tom's Cabin"—"Tom shows"—began

neg: Uncle Tom's Cabin For instance, she had never been to a Southern plantation. However, Stowe always said she based the characters of her book on stories she was told by runaway slaves in Cincinnati. It is reported that "She observed firsthand several incidents which galvanized her to write [the] famous anti-slavery novel. Scenes she observed on the Ohio River, including seeing a husband and wife being sold apart, as well as newspaper and magazine accounts and interviews, contributed material to the emerging plot." In response to these criticisms, in 1853 Stowe published "A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin", an attempt to document the

neg: Die Tageszeitung is noted for its tongue-in-cheek headlines, such as: On 5 June 2008, the paper published a picture headlined ""Onkel Baracks Hütte"" (Uncle Barack's Cabin) with a picture of the White House below the headline as part of an article about then-Senator Barack Obama. That headline, which made reference to the book "Uncle Tom's Cabin", was perceived as racist by some of its readership. Die Tageszeitung Die Tageszeitung (, “The Daily Newspaper”), stylized as "die tageszeitung" and commonly referred to as taz, is a cooperative-owned German daily newspaper administrated by its employees. Founded in 1978 in Berlin as part of an

neg: Marguerite de Angeli of Philadelphia in the Manoa neighborhood of Havertown, on Carpenter Lane in Germantown, Philadelphia, on Panama Street in Center City, Philadelphia, in an apartment near the Philadelphia Art Museum, and in a cottage in Green Lane, Pennsylvania. They also maintained a summer cabin on Money Island in Toms River, New Jersey. Marguerite's husband died in 1969, eight months before their 60th wedding anniversary. In 1971, two years after her husband died, she published her autobiography, "Butter at the Old Price". Her last work, "Friendship and Other Poems", was published in 1981 when she was 92 years old. She died at

neg: Uncle Tom's Cabin veracity of the novel's depiction of slavery. In the book, Stowe discusses each of the major characters in "Uncle Tom's Cabin" and cites "real life equivalents" to them while also mounting a more "aggressive attack on slavery in the South than the novel itself had." Like the novel, "A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin" was a best-seller. However, while Stowe claimed "A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin" documented her previously consulted sources, she actually read many of the cited works only after the publication of her novel. A major part of the "Key" was Stowe's critique of how the legal

neg: Good Bad Books Good Bad Books "Good Bad Books" is an essay by George Orwell first published in "Tribune" on 2 November 1945. After Orwell's death, the essay was republished in "Shooting an Elephant and Other Essays" (1950). The essay examines the lasting popularity of works not usually considered great literature. Orwell defines a "good bad book" as "the kind of book that has no literary pretensions but which remains readable when more serious productions have perished." Orwell concludes: "I would back "Uncle Tom's Cabin" to outlive the complete works of Virginia Woolf or George Moore, though I know of no strictly literary

neg: Uncle Tom's Cabin short article which was published in the oficial newspaper of the Salvadoran government in July 22, 1853 praised Harriet Beecher Stowe and her book's success. As the first widely read political novel in the United States, "Uncle Tom's Cabin" greatly influenced development of not only American literature but also protest literature in general. Later books which owe a large debt to "Uncle Tom's Cabin" include "The Jungle" by Upton Sinclair and "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson. Despite this undisputed significance, "Uncle Tom's Cabin" has been called "a blend of children's fable and propaganda." The novel has also been dismissed by

neg: History of women in the United States selling 10,000 copies in the United States in its first week; 300,000 in the first year; and in Great Britain, 1.5 million copies in one year. Following publication of the book, Harriet Beecher Stowe became a celebrity, speaking against slavery both in America and Europe. She wrote "A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin" in 1853, extensively documenting the realities on which the book was based, to refute critics who tried to argue that it was inauthentic; and published a second anti-slavery novel, "Dred", in 1856. Later, when she visited President Abraham Lincoln, the family's oral tradition states that he greeted

neg: Aunt Phillis's Cabin "Aunt Phillis's Cabin" contains contrasts and comparisons to the anti-slavery novel, "Uncle Tom's Cabin" by Harriet Beecher Stowe, which was published earlier that year. It serves as an antithesis; Eastman's novel deliberately referred to the situation in Stowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin", where plantation owners abuse their repressed, disloyal slaves. Eastman portrays white plantation owners who behave benignly toward their slaves. Eastman also uses quotes from various sources – including "Uncle Tom's Cabin" itself – to explain that slavery is a natural institution, and essential to life. Like other novels of the genre, it contains much dialogue between masters and slaves,

neg: Uncle Tom's Cabin in 1985 Jane Tompkins expressed a different view of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" with her book "In Sensational Designs: The Cultural Work of American Fiction." Tompkins praised the style so many other critics had dismissed, writing that sentimental novels showed how women's emotions had the power to change the world for the better. She also said that the popular domestic novels of the 19th century, including "Uncle Tom's Cabin", were remarkable for their "intellectual complexity, ambition, and resourcefulness"; and that "Uncle Tom's Cabin" offers a "critique of American society far more devastating than any delivered by better-known critics such as Hawthorne

neg: Jeanette Granberg in her story about a priest who takes power in a community before the monarch and the people drive him out and reform the society, and in "Hos oss eller en motbild till Onkel Toms stuga" (At our place or a likeness to Uncle Tom's cabin), she treats the subject of poverty and charity. She was well known to be the author of her plays, but her name was not usually on the posting for the play, as this was considered to be unsuitable for her gender. She married the actor Edvard Stjernström, founder of the Swedish Theatre (Stockholm), in

neg: Uncle Tom's Cabin subject matter of Stowe's novel was judged too sensitive for further film interpretation. In 1946, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer considered filming the story but ceased production after protests led by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. A German-language version, "Onkel Toms Hütte", directed by Géza von Radványi, was released in 1965 and was presented in the United States by exploitation film presenter Kroger Babb. The most recent film version was a television broadcast in 1987, directed by Stan Lathan and adapted by John Gay. It starred Avery Brooks, Phylicia Rashad, Edward Woodward, Jenny Lewis, Samuel L. Jackson and Endyia Kinney.

neg: The Life of Josiah Henson, Formerly a Slave, Now an Inhabitant of Canada, as Narrated by Himself had not yet learned to read and write. The narrative provides a detailed description of his life as a slave in the south. Henson's autobiography was published in Boston in early 1849 by Arthur D. Phelps. Over the next three years, it sold 6,000 copies. It was reprinted after, with different pagination by the Observer Press of Dresden Ontario, for Uncle Tom's Cabin and Museum in Dresden. When it was later known that Henson's narrative was the model for Uncle Tom's Cabin, his sale increased to a total of 100,000 sales. In 1851 it appeared in London and Edinburg as

neg: Uncle Tom's Cabin include the affectionate, dark-skinned "mammy"; the "pickaninny" stereotype of black children; and the "Uncle Tom", or dutiful, long-suffering servant faithful to his white master or mistress. In recent years, the negative associations with "Uncle Tom's Cabin" have, to an extent, overshadowed the historical impact of the book as a "vital antislavery tool." Stowe, a Connecticut-born teacher at the Hartford Female Seminary and an active abolitionist, wrote the novel as a response to the passage, in 1850, of the second Fugitive Slave Act. Much of the book was composed in Brunswick, Maine, where her husband, Calvin Ellis Stowe, taught at his

neg: Uncle Tom however, Henson became synonymous with Uncle Tom. After Stowe's death her son and grandson claimed she and Henson had met before "Uncle Tom's Cabin" was written, but the chronology does not hold up to scrutiny and she probably drew material only from his published autobiography. In short terms, Uncle Tom is labeled to persons, similar to "snitch" or "betrayer", whose motive is driven by acceptance that doing slavery was just how the (antebellum) Southern society worked, whether the acceptance is spontaneous or coerced. The term "Uncle Tom" is used as a derogatory epithet for an excessively subservient person, particularly when

neg: Twelve Years a Slave Northup later filed charges against the men who sold him into slavery but was unsuccessful in his suit. He returned to New York and reunited with his family there. Northup concludes his narrative with the following statement: Questions were often raised about accuracy or authenticity of books about slavery, including slave narratives. Similarities between Northup's book and Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin" have been noted by critics. Stowe's book was published a year before Northup's memoir but by the time she published her rebuttal to critics about accuracy, in her "Key", she referred to his story, which had

neg: The Cabin and Parlor; or, Slaves and Masters have romantic feelings for Walworth, and they eventually marry. The marriage, by a twist of fate, allows Isabel to reclaim her wealth and property - including her slaves - and is finally reinstated at Courtenay Hall. Peterson's novel was among the earliest examples of the plantation literature genre, having first appeared six months after "Uncle Tom's Cabin" appeared in book form. The publishers of Peterson's novel - T.B. Peterson Ltd. (Theophilus B. Peterson was Charles' brother) - would later go on to publish other anti-Tom novels, most notably the 1854 novel "The Planter's Northern Bride" by Caroline Lee Hentz. The

neg: Nida, Lithuania a few kilometers to the south. In 1929 Nobel Prize-winning writer Thomas Mann visited Nida while on holiday in nearby Rauschen and decided to have a summer house erected on a hill above the lagoon; it was mocked by locals as "Uncle Tom's Cabin" ("Onkel Toms Hütte"). He and his family spent the summers of 1930–32 in the cottage, and parts of the epic novel "Joseph and His Brothers" ("Joseph und seine Brüder") were written there. Threatened by the Nazis due to his political views, Mann left Germany after Hitler's "Machtergreifung" in 1933 and eventually emigrated to the United States.

neg: Andrew Lost Deep", they travel to the deepest part of the ocean. At the end of the book, they discover that Soggy Bob Sloggins is not really the villain, but was hypnotized and forced to do evil. They discover that the real enemy is the man who hypnotized him, Doctor Kron-Tox. Illustrated by Jan Gerardi (2004–2005). The ninth book, "Andrew Lost in Time", begins when Andrew, Judy, Thudd, and Uncle Al are in a cabin in Montana, when Doctor Kron-Tox kidnaps Uncle Al and sends him back in time to the ice age. Andrew, Judy, and Thudd run into the "Time-a-tron", the

neg: The Long Loud Silence had the effect of an "Uncle Tom's Cabin" or Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle"". He suggested that the novel was overlooked because publishers chose to market it as science fiction rather than as mainstream fiction. Groff Conklin, although describing the novel as "easily readable," faulted its lack of "imaginative richness" when compared to similar stories. Cyril M. Kornbluth wrote that Tucker's original ending had the protagonist eat his erstwhile mistress, but that Tucker's editor persuaded him to have the two join forces instead. Tucker's original ending was first published, with the author's cooperation, in the Swedish translation of the book that

neg: Bruno Taut its configuration around a pond, and the 1926 Onkel Toms Hütte Development ("Uncle Tom's Cabin") in Zehlendorf, named for a local restaurant and set in a thick grove of trees. Both of these constructions became prominent examples of the use of colorful details in architecture. Taut worked for the city architect of Berlin, Martin Wagner, on some of Berlin's Modernist Housing Estates, now recognized as UNESCO World Heritage Sites. The designs featured controversial modern flat roofs; access to sunlight, air and gardens; and generous amenities like gas, electric light, and bathrooms. Political conservatives complained that these developments were too opulent

neg: Uncle Tom's Cabin Boston alone were given that name. Despite this positive reaction from readers, for decades literary critics dismissed the style found in "Uncle Tom's Cabin" and other sentimental novels because these books were written by women and so prominently featured "women's sloppy emotions." One literary critic said that had the novel not been about slavery, "it would be just another sentimental novel," while another described the book as "primarily a derivative piece of hack work." In "The Literary History of the United States", George F. Whicher called "Uncle Tom's Cabin" "Sunday-school fiction", full of "broadly conceived melodrama, humor, and pathos." However,

neg: The Ugly American it contained "phony" claims of incompetence, and that it was a follow-up to McCarthy era treason charges. The title entered the English language for a type of character portrayed in the book. The book is one of a very few works of fiction that had a profound and lasting impact on American political debate, along with such works as "Uncle Tom's Cabin" and "The Jungle". In 2009 an article appeared in "The New York Times Book Review" about the book's impact since it was first published. The reviewer wrote "[T]he book's enduring resonance may say less about its literary merits

neg: Berlin U-Bahn has also been produced. In 2002, the BVG cooperated with design students in a project to create underwear with an U-Bahn theme, which, in English, they named "Underwear". They used the names of real stations that, in the context of underwear, appeared to be mild sexual double entendres: men's underpants bore labels with "Rohrdamm" (pipe dam), "Onkel Toms Hütte" (Uncle Tom's Cabin), and "Krumme Lanke" (crooked lake); the women's had "Gleisdreieck" (triangle track), and "Jungfernheide" (virgin heath). After the first series sold out quickly, several others were commissioned, such as "Nothammer" (emergency hammer), and "Pendelverkehr" (shuttle service; though "Verkehr" also

neg: Vera Mae Green former is utilized to denote the "Uncle Toms," or integrationist individuals of African descent, while the latter term is used to denote those who have undergone a "rebirth" in terms of Black pride. The "Toms" are often derogatorily referred to as "middle class," and in contrast, there is a glorification of "our roots," which by implication means the lower classes and the folk families. Implicit in this new usage is the accompanying idea that all persons of African descent were unaware of their history and sought escape from any form of "Negro" connection. As a result, the stage is being

neg: New Objectivity (architecture) and Hugo Häring on colourful developments of flats and terraced houses such as the 1925 Horseshoe Estate, the 1926 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' (Onkel-Toms-Hütte) and the 1929 'Carl-Legien-Siedlung', through the auspices of the Trade Unionist building society GEHAG. Taut's designs featured controversially modern flat roofs, humane access to sun, air and gardens, and generous amenities like gas, electric light, and bathrooms. Critics on the political Right complained that these developments were too opulent for 'simple people'. The progressive Berlin mayor Gustav Böss defended them: "We want to bring the lower levels of society higher." Similar experiments in municipal socialism such as

neg: Blake Mycoskie work with Seva. "I've been there when (people have had) surgery... and I've handed out the glasses. But as Toms grows, it has to be less about 'What's Blake's most intimate, joyful experience?' and more about 'What's the great need?'" Mycoskie published the book "Start Something That Matters" in 2011. In it, he wrote about the virtues of social entrepreneurship and the concept of businesses using their profits and company assets to make charitable donations or engage in other charitable efforts, using his experience with Toms to demonstrate both the intangible and real returns. For every copy of "Start Something

neg: Charles Jacobs Peterson literature which arose in response to "Uncle Tom's Cabin". It was published by T.B. Peterson, Ltd.; Theophilus B. Peterson was one of Charles' brothers and a leading publisher of cheap and sensational fiction. Peterson was not necessarily defending the institution of slavery, but instead a gradualism for ending of slavery in future instead of a destruction which would fracture the United States. After the American Civil War broke out, he was clearly on the Union side. Some were originally published in serial form in "Graham's Magazine" or "Peterson's": Charles Jacobs Peterson Charles Jacobs Peterson (July 20, 1818 - March 4,

neg: Uncle Shelby's ABZ Book Uncle Shelby's ABZ Book Uncle Shelby's ABZ Book () is a satirical alphabet book by Shel Silverstein. First published in 1961, it is sometimes described as "subversive". The cover on some editions of the book read "A primer for adults only" while other editions read "A primer for tender young minds" instead. Much of the humor derives from a cynical drive to give the reader misleading, harmful advice. A portion of the book originally appeared in a slightly different form in "Playboy" magazine. Silverstein urges the reader to keep termites as pets, play hopscotch with real Scotch whisky and give

neg: Martin Delany to Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin", in 1859 and 1862, Delany published parts of "" in serialized form. His novel portrayed an insurrectionist's travels through slave communities. He believed that Stowe had portrayed slaves as too passive, although he praised her highlighting the cruelty of Southern slave owners. Modern scholars have praised Delany's novel as an accurate interpretation of black culture. The first half of Part One was serialized in "The Anglo-African Magazine", January to July 1859. The rest of Part One was included in serial form in the "Weekly Anglo African Magazine" from 1861 to 1862. In May

neg: Uncle Tom's Children Uncle Tom's Children Uncle Tom's Children is a collection of novellas and the first book published by African-American author Richard Wright, who went on to write "Native Son" (1940), "Black Boy" (1945), and "The Outsider" (1953). When it was first published in 1938, "Uncle Tom's Children" included only four novellas: "Big Boy Leaves Home," "Down by the Riverside," "Long Black Song," and "Fire and Cloud." "The Ethics of Living Jim Crow" and "Bright and Morning Star," which are now the first and final pieces, respectively, were added when the book was republished in 1940. The book's title is derived from

neg: Maria Monk repeat it to a wider audience. According to the "American Protestant Vindicator", by July 1836 the book had sold 26,000 copies. Other publishers later issued books that supported Monk’s claims or were close imitators, or else they published tracts that refuted the tale. Historian Richard Hofstadter called it, in his 1964 essay "The Paranoid Style in American Politics", "[p]robably the most widely read contemporary book in the United States before "Uncle Tom's Cabin"." Monk’s book caused a public outcry. Protestants in Montreal, Quebec, demanded an investigation, and the local bishop organized one. The inquiry found no evidence to support the

neg: The Witchery of Archery The Witchery of Archery The Witchery of Archery, written by Maurice Thompson in 1878, was the first book in English about hunting with a bow ever published. Its full title is The Witchery of Archery: A Complete Manual of Archery. With Many Chapters of Adventures by Field and Flood, and an Appendix Containing Practical Directions for the Manufacture and Use of Archery Implements. It was the first important book about archery written in English since "Toxophilus", which was written in 1545. It was said that "Witchery" "...has as much effect on archery as "Uncle Tom's Cabin" had on the Civil

neg: Caroline Lee Hentz her first work, a short story, "The Sacrifice," in Godey's "Lady's Book". While living in Covington, Kentucky, Caroline also wrote "Constance of Werdenberg", a play performed at the Park Theatre in New York in 1832. That same year, another one of her plays, "Lamorah; or, the Western Wild", played in Cincinnati in 1832 and in New Orleans at Calwell’s on January 1, 1833. In 1850, Hentz published her most profitable novel, "Linda". One of her most famous novels, "The Planter’s Northern Bride", was published in 1854 in response to Harriet Beecher Stowe’s "Uncle Tom’s Cabin". Her earlier works spoke to

neg: Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp is the second popular novel from American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. It was first published in two volumes by Phillips, Sampson and Company in 1856. Although it enjoyed better initial sales than her previous, and more famous, novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin", it was ultimately less popular. "Dred" was of a more documentary nature than "Uncle Tom's Cabin" and thus lacked a character like Uncle Tom to evoke strong emotion from readers. "Dred" is the story of Nina Gordon, an impetuous young heiress to a

neg: History of the socialist movement in the United States his work was undercut by his many feuds with his own followers. Utopian socialism reached the national level fictionally in Edward Bellamy's 1888 novel "Looking Backward", a utopian depiction of a socialist United States in the year 2000. The book sold millions of copies and became one of the best-selling American books of the nineteenth century. By one estimation, only "Uncle Tom's Cabin" surpassed it in sales. The book sparked a following of Bellamy Clubs and influenced socialist and labor leaders, including Eugene V. Debs. Likewise, Upton Sinclair's masterpiece "The Jungle" was first published in the socialist newspaper "Appeal to

neg: Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow Journey From Petersburg to Moscow (in Russian: Путешествие из Петербурга в Москву), published in 1790, was the most famous work by the Russian writer Aleksander Nikolayevich Radishchev. The work, often described as a Russian "Uncle Tom's Cabin", is a polemical study of the problems in the Russia of Catherine the Great: serfdom, the powers of the nobility, the issues in government and governance, social structure and personal freedom and liberty. The book starts from an epigraph about "The Beast who is "enormous, disgusting, a-hundred-maws and barking"" meaning the Russian Empire. The book was immediately

neg: Kevin Toms mail order in 1982 through advertisements placed in computer magazines using the name Addictive Games. The game became a big success, particularly after being ported to the ZX Spectrum, and began to be stocked by high street stores. When the stores ordered thousands of copies, Toms quit his day job to run Addictive Games. "Football Manager" was ported to a wide variety of systems (there were sixteen different versions by 1987). Between 1982 and 1987, Toms ran the company which published a number of games by other programmers as well as new games from Toms, "Software Star" and "President". Toms

neg: Nationalist Clubs The new economic basis of society effectively remade human nature itself in Bellamy's idyllic vision, with greed, maliciousness, untruthfulness, and insanity all relegated to the past. This vision of American possibilities came as a clarion call to many American intellectuals, and "Looking Backward" proved to be a massive best-seller of the day. Within a year, the book had sold some 200,000 copies and by the end of the 19th century, it had sold more copies than any other book published in America outside of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" by Harriet Beecher Stowe. Moreover, a new political movement spontaneously emerged, dedicated to

neg: Wellington Boone model." One of the first magazines to publish this revolutionary message was "Ministries Today", where Bishop Boone challenged Blacks to read the book "Uncle Tom's Cabin" by Harriet Beecher Stowe where the character of Uncle Tom gave his life to save other slaves. He was a real Christian following the example of Jesus Christ. Bishop Boone said of African-American slavery in the United States, "I believe that slavery, and the understanding of it when you see it God's way, was redemptive." As a pastor, he has emphasized that bitterness and resentment are not solutions. He has encouraged states to apologize

neg: Uncle Tom's Cabin alma mater, Bowdoin College. Stowe was partly inspired to create "Uncle Tom's Cabin" by the slave narrative "The Life of Josiah Henson, Formerly a Slave, Now an Inhabitant of Canada, as Narrated by Himself" (1849). Henson, a formerly enslaved black man, had lived and worked on a tobacco plantation in North Bethesda, Maryland, owned by Isaac Riley. Henson escaped slavery in 1830 by fleeing to the Province of Upper Canada (now Ontario), where he helped other fugitive slaves settle and become self-sufficient, and where he wrote his memoirs. Stowe acknowledged in 1853 that Henson's writings inspired "Uncle Tom's Cabin". When

neg: The Lofty and the Lowly, or Good in All and None All Good The Lofty and the Lowly, or Good in All and None All Good The Lofty and the Lowly, or Good in All and None All Good is a novel by Maria Jane McIntosh published by D. Appleton & Company in 1853. It was one of many anti-Tom novels published in response to Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin". The story is set is Georgia and tells of a plantation owner's efforts to avoid bankruptcy with the help of his loyal slave Daddy Cato. Their efforts are challenged by a northern usurer and devious northern capitalists. The book sold well across

neg: Uncle Tom's Cabin that Stowe was less a novelist than an "impassioned pamphleteer", i.e., a propagandist for the antislavery cause. Edward Rothstein has claimed that Baldwin missed the point and that the purpose of the novel was "to treat slavery not as a political issue but as an individually human one – and ultimately a challenge to Christianity itself"; as a propaganda work it need not necessarily be great literature in order to succeed in its goals. In recent years, however, scholars such as Henry Louis Gates Jr. have re-examined "Uncle Tom's Cabin", stating that the book is a "central document in American

neg: John Boydell John Boydell John Boydell (; 19 January 1720 – 12 December 1804) was an 18th-century British publisher noted for his reproductions of engravings. He helped alter the trade imbalance between Britain and France in engravings and initiated a British tradition in the art form. A former engraver himself, Boydell promoted the interests of artists as well as patrons and as a result his business prospered. The son of a land surveyor, Boydell apprenticed himself to William Henry Toms, an artist he admired, and learned engraving. He established his own business in 1746 and published his first book of engravings around

neg: Uncle Tom's Cabin little lady who started this great war." Historians are undecided if Lincoln actually said this line, and in a letter that Stowe wrote to her husband a few hours after meeting with Lincoln no mention of this comment was made. Since then, many writers have credited this novel with focusing Northern anger at the injustices of slavery and the Fugitive Slave Law and helping to fuel the abolitionist movement. Union general and politician James Baird Weaver said that the book convinced him to become active in the abolitionist movement. "Uncle Tom's Cabin" also created great interest in the United Kingdom.

neg: Stephen Blumberg advantage of that kind of access."(511) In 1997, Blumberg was convicted again of burglary of antiques. He was again arrested in July 2003 for burglary of a house in Keokuk, Iowa. He was subsequently convicted in early 2004. He was again arrested in June 2004 for burglary in Knoxville, Illinois. This violated his probation for the 2004 conviction in Keokuk, Iowa for which he was again arrested. Some of the more precious objects Blumberg stole include a first edition copy of Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin"; "A Confession of Faith", the first published book in Connecticut in 1710; 25

neg: Uncle Tom's Cabin after its original publication, which started the since-then uninterrupted dialogue between American authors and Slovene translators and readers. Later, it was translated into almost every major language, including Chinese (with translator Lin Shu creating the first Chinese translation of an American novel in 1901) and Amharic (with the 1930 translation created in support of Ethiopian efforts to end the suffering of blacks in that nation). The book was so widely read that Sigmund Freud reported a number of patients with sado-masochistic tendencies who he believed had been influenced by reading about the whipping of slaves in "Uncle Tom's Cabin". A