Professor Harriet Beecher Stowe

Uncle Tom's Cabin (Annotated) Professor Harriet Beecher Stowe

Differentiated book- It has a historical context with research of the time-In 1851, ten years before the US secession war that would end slavery in that country, The National Era, a secessionist newspaper edited by journalist Gamaliel Bailey, published the first chapter of a series that would make up the novel "The Uncle Tom's Cabin. " Its author Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote the book without ever stepping south. However, he did an enormous job of documentation through an investigation developed mainly from Cincinatti, one of the most important abolitionist cities of that time. The details of his research were published in his book 'A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin'.'Uncle Tom's hut is The novel about slavery in the United States. It tells the story of several characters. Uncle Tom is the black slave of the house who does not consider another life different from the one he has. He is a character of extreme purity, a straight and good man to unsuspected limits who, despite all the horrors he suffers, always manages to maintain his faith and humanity. It is, through this exceptional character and its goodness, that it manages to consolidate itself as a reference in the different spaces of white owners through which it is going.