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Title

A key to Uncle Tom's cabin : presenting the original facts and documents upon which the story is founded : together with corroborative statements verifying the truth of the work / by Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of "Uncle Tom's cabin."

Author

Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896.

Publication

London : Thomas Bosworth, 215 Regent Street, 1853.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Bosworth, Thomas
• Barclay, George
• Cook, John William

Description

viii, 595, [1] p., [1] leaf of plates : port.; 19 cm.

Donor/Sponsor

Home to Harlem Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Subjects

• Slaves > United States > Social conditions
• Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896 > Uncle Tom's cabin
• Antislavery movements > United States
• Uncle Tom (Fictitious character)
• Slavery > United States > History > Sources

Note

• "London: Printed by G. Barclay, Castle St. Leicester Sq."--printer statement, verso of title page.
• Last page blank.
• Portrait of Harriet Beecher Stowe signed: John W. Cook. sculpt.

Provenance (note)

• is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.

Contents

pt. I. 1. Introductory ; 2. Mr. Haley ; 3. Mr. and Mrs. Shelby ; 4. George Harris ; 5. Eliza ; 6. Uncle Tom ; 7. Miss Ophelia ; 8. Marie St. Clare ; 9. St. Clare ; 10. Legree ; 11. Select incidents of lawful trade ; 12. Topsy ; 13. The Quakers ; 14. The spirit of St. Clare -- pt. II. 1. Introductory ; 2. What is slavery? ; 3. Souther v. Commonwealth: the ne plus ultra of legal humanity ; 4. Protective statutes ; 5. Protective acts of South Carolina and Louisiana: The iron collar of Louisiana and North Carolina ; 6. Protective acts with regard to food and raiment, labour, etc. ; 7. The execution of justice ; 8. The good old time ; 9. Moderate correction and accidental death: State vs. Castleman ; 10. Principles established: State vs. Legree, a case not in the books ; 11. The triumph of justice over law ; 12. A comparison of the Roman law of slavery with the American ; 13. The men better than their laws ; 14. The Hebrew slave-law compared with the American slave-law ; 15. Slavery is despotism -- pt. III. 1. Does public opinion protect the slave? ; 2. Public opinion formed by education ; 3. Separation of families ; 4. The slave-trade ; 5. Select incidents of lawful trade, or facts stranger than fiction ; 6. Milly Edmondson ; 7. Emily Russell ; 8. Kidnapping ; 9. Slaves as they are, on testimony of owners ; 10. Poor white trash -- pt. IV. 1-2. The influence of the American church on slavery ; 3. Martyrdom ; 4-8. Servitude in the primitive church compared with American slavery ; 9. Is the system of religion which is taught the slave the gospel? ; 10. What is to be done? -- Appendix: Fact v. figures, or, the nine Arab brothers.

Call Number

Sc Rare 326.973-S (Stowe, H. Key to Uncle Tom's cabin. London, Bosworth)

LCCN

02004230

OCLC

• 5515320
• NYPGR5515320-B

Author

Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896.

Title

A key to Uncle Tom's cabin : presenting the original facts and documents upon which the story is founded : together with corroborative statements verifying the truth of the work / by Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of "Uncle Tom's cabin."

Imprint

London : Thomas Bosworth, 215 Regent Street, 1853.

Provenance

Copy in Sc Rare 326.973-S (accession no. B527106) is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926. NN

Local Note

Copy in Sc Rare 326.973-S accompanied by 4 p. publisher's catalog at end: "Works recently published by Thomas Bosworth, 215 Regent Street, London." NN

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Added Author

Bosworth, Thomas, publisher.

Barclay, George, printer.

Cook, John William, engraver.

Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso, 1874-1938, former owner.

Research Call Number

Sc Rare 326.973-S (Stowe, H. Key to Uncle Tom's cabin. London, Bosworth)