Harriet Beecher Stowe

The moving abolitionist novel that fueled the fire of the human rights debate in 1852 and melodramatically condemned the institution of slavery through such powerfully realized characters as Tom, Eliza, Topsy, Eva, and Simon Legree.

Published in 1853. Topics include: Quakers, New York Courier & Enquirer, What is slavery?, Souther v. The Commonwealth, Protective statutes, Protective acts of South Carolina & Louisiana, Protective acts with regard to Food & Raiment, Labor, etc., Tom v. Legree, Execution of justice, State v. Eliza Rowans, Moderate correction & accidental death, State v. Castleman, State v. Legree, Triumph of justice over law, Roman law of slavery vs. American slavery,...

Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of Uncle Tom's Cabin, wrote this 1869 novel with the intent of describing a New England village's life and character in the years after the Revolutionary War, before the advent of industrialization. Said Stowe, in the voice of the novel's narrator Horace Holyoke, "I would endeavor to show you New England in its seed-bed, before the hot suns of modern progress had developed its sprouting germs into the great trees of today."...

"[Harriet Beecher Stowe's] love story involves Harry Henderson, the narrator, who comes to New York to work in publishing, and Eva Van Arsdale, the daughter of a wealthy Wall Street financier. But while Stowe develops the love story, she also evokes three major forms of nostalgia widely expressed in middle-class culture during this time: the longing for the kind of religious experience that presumably existed in the past, the longing for communion...