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Uncle Tom's Cabin — Harriet Beecher Stowe

Uncle Tom's Cabin

Harriet Beecher Stowe

  • Novel
  • Book language: English
  • 483 pages

Uncle Tom's Cabin is an anti-slavery novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe. It follows the lives of enslaved people, especially Uncle Tom and Eliza, as they endure the cruelties of slavery in the American South. The book was influential in the abolitionist movement and remains a moving portrayal of human dignity.

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Cover of the original edition (Project Gutenberg, public domain).

Text source: gutenberg.org · The work is in the public domain.

Opening of the book

Uncle Tom’s Cabin

or

Life among the Lowly

by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Contents

VOLUME I

CHAPTER I—In Which the Reader Is Introduced to a Man of

Humanity

CHAPTER II—The Mother

CHAPTER III —The Husband and Father

CHAPTER IV—An Evening in Uncle Tom’s Cabin

CHAPTER V—Showing the Feelings of Living Property on Changing

Owners

CHAPTER VI—Discovery

CHAPTER VII—The Mother’s Struggle

CHAPTER VIII—Eliza’s Escape

CHAPTER IX—In Which It Appears That a Senator Is But a Man

CHAPTER X—The Property Is Carried Off

CHAPTER XI—In Which Property Gets into an Improper State of

Mind

CHAPTER XII—Select Incident of Lawful Trade

CHAPTER XIII—The Quaker Settlement

CHAPTER XIV—Evangeline

CHAPTER XV—Of Tom’s New Master, and Various Other Matters

CHAPTER XVI—Tom’s Mistress and Her Opinions

CHAPTER XVII—The Freeman’s Defence

CHAPTER XVIII—Miss Ophelia’s Experiences and Opinions

VOLUME II

CHAPTER—Miss Ophelia’s Experiences and Opinions Continued XIX

CHAPTER XX—Topsy

CHAPTER XXI—Kentuck

CHAPTER XXII—“The Grass Withereth—the Flower Fadeth”

CHAPTER XXIII—Henrique

CHAPTER XXIV—Foreshadowings

CHAPTER XXV—The Little Evangelist

CHAPTER XXVI—Death

CHAPTER XXVII—“This Is the Last of Earth”

CHAPTER XXVIII—Reunion

CHAPTER XXIX—The Unprotected

CHAPTER XXX—The Slave Warehouse

CHAPTER XXXI—The Middle Passage

CHAPTER XXXII—Dark Places

CHAPTER XXXIII—Cassy

CHAPTER XXXIV—The Quadroon’s Story

CHAPTER XXXV—The Tokens

CHAPTER XXXVI—Emmeline and Cassy

CHAPTER XXXVII—Liberty

CHAPTER XXXVIII—The Victory

CHAPTER XXXIX—The Stratagem

CHAPTER XL—The Martyr

CHAPTER XLI—The Young Master

CHAPTER XLII—An Authentic Ghost Story

CHAPTER XLIII—Results

CHAPTER XLIV—The Liberator

CHAPTER XLV—Concluding Remarks

List of Illustrations

Eliza comes to tell Uncle Tom that he is sold, and that she is running away to save her child.

THE AUCTION SALE.

THE FREEMAN’S DEFENCE.

LITTLE EVA READING THE BIBLE TO UNCLE TOM IN THE ARBOR.

CASSY MINISTERING TO UNCLE TOM AFTER HIS WHIPPING.

THE FUGITIVES ARE SAVE IN A FREE LAND.

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Contents

  1. Uncle Tom’s Cabin or Life among the Lowly
  2. Contents
  3. List of Illustrations
  4. VOLUME I
  5. VOLUME II
  6. THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG™ LICENSE

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