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First published March 20, 1852
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Harriet Beecher Stowe
1,418听books1,360听followersHarriet Elizabeth Beecher Stowe was an American author and abolitionist, whose novel Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852) attacked the cruelty of slavery; it reached millions as a novel and play, and became influential, even in Britain. It made the political issues of the 1850s regarding slavery tangible to millions, energizing anti-slavery forces in the American North. It angered and embittered the South. The impact is summed up in a commonly quoted statement apocryphally attributed to Abraham Lincoln. When he met Stowe, it is claimed that he said, "So you're the little woman that started this great war!"
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June 26, 2011
ONE READER'S CONFUSION ABOUT WHY "UNCLE TOM" MEANS ANYTHING BUT HERO
3.0 stars. First, I am glad I have finally read this book given its historical significance and the very positive impact that it had on American history. That said, from a literary perspective, I didn't find this book to be particularly well written and am doubtful of whether it would be much remembered or considered a "classic" but for the aforementioned historical significance and the creation of the character of Uncle Tom (more on that below). The prose is not horrible, but neither is it exceptional. It's just okay.
Since I assume everyone is familiar with the substance and background of the book I will not summarize it here. Others have done a much bettermjob of it. However, I do want to share an observation about the main character, Uncle Tom, that struck me pretty hard.
Prior to reading this book, if you would have asked me about the character of Uncle Tom, I would have said that he was a character portrayed as a "weak willed" slave who did everything he could to please his white master no matter what abuses were heaped upon him. This opinion, wrong as I now think it is, would have been based in large part on the derogatory nature of the term "Uncle Tom" in the African American community as someone who has "sold out" their heritage and beliefs in order to be successful.
After reading the book, I don't think I can adequately express how STRONGLY I disagree with that characterization. I would place Uncle Tom among the pantheon of truly HEROIC figures in American literature. Granted, Tom was no Hollywood square-jaw who armored up and went Braveheart on the slave holders slaughtering them by the bushel. However, he was most definitely a HERO in the mold of "Gandhi" who NEVER ONCE...NEVER ONCE compromised his principals and belief in "non violence" and Tom CHANGED those around him (both white and black) for the better.
Tom's non violence came not from fear or cowardice, but from his deeply held Christian faith and his belief that he would rather suffer unjustly (as Christ did) than raise a hand to another. Whether you agree with that philosophy or not, it is beyond debate that to accept hardship rather than compromise your inner compass is called INTEGRITY...it's called COURAGE.
In one very memorable part of the book, Tom is ordered by his sadistic slave owner to whip a female slave. Tom refuses and is savagely beaten. Thereafter, Tom is repeatedly beaten because he continues to refuse to engage in conduct he finds reprehensible. Despite this repeated abuse, Tom NEVER, NEVER backs down or compromises on his beliefs. In fact, the book goes on to describe the slave owner's realization that while he may own Tom's body, he could never acquire his soul. FOLKS, FOR ME, THAT IS A HERO!!! How many people would subject themselves to that kind of abuse rather than rationalize their principals.
Reading that portion of the book, I was struck by the similarities between that scene and a speech given by Gandhi in the movie with Ben Kingsley (which I loved). While speaking to a group of South African's about the need for "non violent" protest Gandhi says (I am paraphrasing somewhat):
I found Tom's struggle to be very similar and the character of Tom to be VERY HEROIC. For that reason alone, I bumped this up to 3 stars and HIGHLY RECOMMEND this book.
3.0 stars. First, I am glad I have finally read this book given its historical significance and the very positive impact that it had on American history. That said, from a literary perspective, I didn't find this book to be particularly well written and am doubtful of whether it would be much remembered or considered a "classic" but for the aforementioned historical significance and the creation of the character of Uncle Tom (more on that below). The prose is not horrible, but neither is it exceptional. It's just okay.
Since I assume everyone is familiar with the substance and background of the book I will not summarize it here. Others have done a much bettermjob of it. However, I do want to share an observation about the main character, Uncle Tom, that struck me pretty hard.
Prior to reading this book, if you would have asked me about the character of Uncle Tom, I would have said that he was a character portrayed as a "weak willed" slave who did everything he could to please his white master no matter what abuses were heaped upon him. This opinion, wrong as I now think it is, would have been based in large part on the derogatory nature of the term "Uncle Tom" in the African American community as someone who has "sold out" their heritage and beliefs in order to be successful.
After reading the book, I don't think I can adequately express how STRONGLY I disagree with that characterization. I would place Uncle Tom among the pantheon of truly HEROIC figures in American literature. Granted, Tom was no Hollywood square-jaw who armored up and went Braveheart on the slave holders slaughtering them by the bushel. However, he was most definitely a HERO in the mold of "Gandhi" who NEVER ONCE...NEVER ONCE compromised his principals and belief in "non violence" and Tom CHANGED those around him (both white and black) for the better.
Tom's non violence came not from fear or cowardice, but from his deeply held Christian faith and his belief that he would rather suffer unjustly (as Christ did) than raise a hand to another. Whether you agree with that philosophy or not, it is beyond debate that to accept hardship rather than compromise your inner compass is called INTEGRITY...it's called COURAGE.
In one very memorable part of the book, Tom is ordered by his sadistic slave owner to whip a female slave. Tom refuses and is savagely beaten. Thereafter, Tom is repeatedly beaten because he continues to refuse to engage in conduct he finds reprehensible. Despite this repeated abuse, Tom NEVER, NEVER backs down or compromises on his beliefs. In fact, the book goes on to describe the slave owner's realization that while he may own Tom's body, he could never acquire his soul. FOLKS, FOR ME, THAT IS A HERO!!! How many people would subject themselves to that kind of abuse rather than rationalize their principals.
Reading that portion of the book, I was struck by the similarities between that scene and a speech given by Gandhi in the movie with Ben Kingsley (which I loved). While speaking to a group of South African's about the need for "non violent" protest Gandhi says (I am paraphrasing somewhat):
...This is a cause for which I am prepared to fight, but my friends there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill...However, fear not for we can not lose...They can beat my body, break my bones, even kill me...then they will have my dead body, NOT MY OBEDIENCE!!!...
I found Tom's struggle to be very similar and the character of Tom to be VERY HEROIC. For that reason alone, I bumped this up to 3 stars and HIGHLY RECOMMEND this book.
August 18, 2014
Wow. I wish this was still required reading in schools. Can you imagine: a book that was credited by President Lincoln with bringing about the Civil War, and is known to have so affected the hearts of readers that it changed their opinions of slavery is hardly read in the country whose face it changed?
September 8, 2008
This book is one of the most moving, provocative pieces of literature I've ever read, and it's the first time that I can recall being moved to tears from a book. As long as I live, I will never be able to remove from my mind the vision of Eliza, panicked and frenzied, in the dead of the night with her baby boy in her arms, leaping across the frozen ice of the Ohio river to escape the trader her baby had been sold to. And if anyone wants to read a profound and well written narrative for the view of a Black Slave, look to George's monologue on page 127-128, where he is at the Inn with Mr. Wilson, disguised as a white upperclass gentlemen, and explaining to Mr. Wilson how he feels about his country.
I was involved in the book up to that point, but after that, this book owned me. This should be required reading of every American Citizen, and it's in my top five of the most important books I have ever read. For whatever the cause of the American people, it all comes down to "When in the course of human events...".
I was involved in the book up to that point, but after that, this book owned me. This should be required reading of every American Citizen, and it's in my top five of the most important books I have ever read. For whatever the cause of the American people, it all comes down to "When in the course of human events...".
September 9, 2021
(Book 893 from 1001 books) - Uncle Tom鈥檚 cabin; or, life among the lowly, Harriet Beecher Stowe
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 "helped lay the groundwork for the Civil War", according to Will Kaufman.
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 something as destructive as enslavement of fellow human beings. ...
Uncle Tom's Cabin was first published as a footnote in a newspaper, and when it became a book, it sold millions of copies, not only in the United States but all over the world, and for years plays based on it, Performed on the stage of theaters around the world.
President Abraham Lincoln was told in a meeting, "So you are the little lady who caused the great war (the American Civil War)".
Because the Civil War began nine years after the book was published, some consider the publication of the novel to be the most controversial event in the history of novel writing. "This novel is one of the greatest products of the human mind," Tolstoy praised after reading the book.
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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 "helped lay the groundwork for the Civil War", according to Will Kaufman.
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 something as destructive as enslavement of fellow human beings. ...
Uncle Tom's Cabin was first published as a footnote in a newspaper, and when it became a book, it sold millions of copies, not only in the United States but all over the world, and for years plays based on it, Performed on the stage of theaters around the world.
President Abraham Lincoln was told in a meeting, "So you are the little lady who caused the great war (the American Civil War)".
Because the Civil War began nine years after the book was published, some consider the publication of the novel to be the most controversial event in the history of novel writing. "This novel is one of the greatest products of the human mind," Tolstoy praised after reading the book.
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August 1, 2020
Uncle Tom鈥檚 Cabin highlights the disgusting, evil, and immoral times of slavery in American history. This sentimental novel is fictional, but shares truth in what life was like for slaves and how they were treated during these dark times. It鈥檚 been said that this book helped lay the groundwork for the American Civil War.
This was a recommended read for my daughter鈥檚 American History curriculum but not a required one. I鈥檝e always wanted to read it, and now I can say it鈥檚 one of the most difficult books I鈥檝e ever read鈥攂oth in the way it鈥檚 written and also the content. The sentence structure and word use made it hard to follow at times. Not only that, the story flips around between characters which I didn鈥檛 particularly care for. We found a narrator (Buck Schirner) that does an excellent job with the different voices which really pulls you into the novel, making the dialect easier to read.
The story follows Tom, a devout Christian slave whose owner (Mr. Shelby) has fallen into financial difficulties, having no choice but to sell Tom and other valuable slaves. Living with the Shelbys, Tom鈥檚 had many luxuries including a decent wardrobe, books, and a wife and children. He鈥檚 been treated decently and appreciates everything he has. He mourns having to leave them, and the family mourns the loss of him and the others as well. As time goes on and Tom is transferred from place to place, he meets new people, some kind and some callous.
This book isn鈥檛 just Tom鈥檚 story; there are other characters including some of the slaves who were living with Tom at the Shelby plantation who have now gone separate ways. Their stories sort of revolve around Toms. I felt for the characters and found myself on the edge of my seat at times鈥攅specially with Eliza on her journey with her young son, Harry.
There are other themes aside from slavery here including religion, righteousness, social roles of women, family, and freedom. The Christian theme is very strong which wasn鈥檛 expected. I was completely unaware that the author would connect Christianity with views on slavery.
As to how the book made me feel: it made me sick at times. The discussions between slave owners with their talk of 鈥榩roperty鈥� and their complete disregard for humanity is hard to digest. Blacks weren鈥檛 expected to have feelings; in fact, they were expected to be tolerant throughout, come what may. These belief systems are insane. Perhaps what hit me the hardest was the nightmare of families being torn apart鈥攆or the mothers and children especially. As a mother myself, I can鈥檛 even fathom how some of the men and women during this time could stand back, so reserved, and truly believe that a person鈥檚 skin color made them less than human鈥攏ot able to learn, love, or have any feelings for that matter鈥攁nd then to watch these women鈥檚 children ripped away from them. The constant degradation of Blacks and the racial slurs were upsetting. For a melancholic person such as myself, I can say with certainty that this book stressed me out and made me angry. With that said, I was also uplifted and inspired by Tom鈥檚 unwavering strength and faith. It鈥檚 very thought-provoking how divided people were then, much the same as we are today. This book most definitely encourages discussion.
I鈥檒l likely never want to read this book again, but I feel this is such an important read, and I鈥檒l even go so far as to say that it should be required reading for upper grades regardless of the religious ideology.
4****
This was a recommended read for my daughter鈥檚 American History curriculum but not a required one. I鈥檝e always wanted to read it, and now I can say it鈥檚 one of the most difficult books I鈥檝e ever read鈥攂oth in the way it鈥檚 written and also the content. The sentence structure and word use made it hard to follow at times. Not only that, the story flips around between characters which I didn鈥檛 particularly care for. We found a narrator (Buck Schirner) that does an excellent job with the different voices which really pulls you into the novel, making the dialect easier to read.
The story follows Tom, a devout Christian slave whose owner (Mr. Shelby) has fallen into financial difficulties, having no choice but to sell Tom and other valuable slaves. Living with the Shelbys, Tom鈥檚 had many luxuries including a decent wardrobe, books, and a wife and children. He鈥檚 been treated decently and appreciates everything he has. He mourns having to leave them, and the family mourns the loss of him and the others as well. As time goes on and Tom is transferred from place to place, he meets new people, some kind and some callous.
This book isn鈥檛 just Tom鈥檚 story; there are other characters including some of the slaves who were living with Tom at the Shelby plantation who have now gone separate ways. Their stories sort of revolve around Toms. I felt for the characters and found myself on the edge of my seat at times鈥攅specially with Eliza on her journey with her young son, Harry.
There are other themes aside from slavery here including religion, righteousness, social roles of women, family, and freedom. The Christian theme is very strong which wasn鈥檛 expected. I was completely unaware that the author would connect Christianity with views on slavery.
As to how the book made me feel: it made me sick at times. The discussions between slave owners with their talk of 鈥榩roperty鈥� and their complete disregard for humanity is hard to digest. Blacks weren鈥檛 expected to have feelings; in fact, they were expected to be tolerant throughout, come what may. These belief systems are insane. Perhaps what hit me the hardest was the nightmare of families being torn apart鈥攆or the mothers and children especially. As a mother myself, I can鈥檛 even fathom how some of the men and women during this time could stand back, so reserved, and truly believe that a person鈥檚 skin color made them less than human鈥攏ot able to learn, love, or have any feelings for that matter鈥攁nd then to watch these women鈥檚 children ripped away from them. The constant degradation of Blacks and the racial slurs were upsetting. For a melancholic person such as myself, I can say with certainty that this book stressed me out and made me angry. With that said, I was also uplifted and inspired by Tom鈥檚 unwavering strength and faith. It鈥檚 very thought-provoking how divided people were then, much the same as we are today. This book most definitely encourages discussion.
I鈥檒l likely never want to read this book again, but I feel this is such an important read, and I鈥檒l even go so far as to say that it should be required reading for upper grades regardless of the religious ideology.
4****
August 29, 2018
It's not really this book's fault that it sucks. Harriet Beecher Stowe's heart was in the right place: she aimed to expose the evils of slavery. Abraham Lincoln is said to have called her the 鈥渓ittle woman who wrote the book that made this great war.鈥� That's patronizing and it didn't, but it didn't hurt either.
But it hasn't aged well. According to this book, here's
What Black People Are Like
- "The African, naturally patient, timid and unenterprising"
- "The negro is naturally more impressible to religious sentiment than the white"
- "The negro, it must be remembered, is an exotic of the most gorgeous and superb countries of this world, and he has, deep in his heart, a passion for all that is splendid, rich, and fanciful; a passion which, rudely indulged by an untrained taste, draws on them the ridicule of the colder and more correct white race."
I put more more quotes of this type in the comments below, if you're really interested.
This comes across as racist, because it totally is, and here's the thing: there were other people who wrote about slavery and did not make statements like these. Black people! Stowe's source for Uncle Tom himself, in fact, is Josiah Henson, whose real-life story you can read for free instead of this.
I know things were different back then, but I also don't think we need to over-complicate our historical relativism. If someone were to ask me what I'm reading and I were to feel compelled to explain myself - "I know it's racist, I'm not reading it because I like it..." then my conversation with the book as literature is condescending, and it's outlived its usefulness, and that's okay. It's okay if it did some good once and it's run out of good now. It's okay if it goes out of style. We don't have to, like, burn all the copies. But I do feel like when we have the opportunity to hear about oppression from the oppressed themselves, then that's better.
(It's true that slave narratives were written for white audiences, with specific goals and formulae, and often dictated to white ghost writers, so this isn't totally straight-forward. But slave narratives are anyway more authentic than Uncle Tom, I guess.)
Anyway, back to the actual book: Uncle Tom is frankly an Uncle Tom, but to Stowe's credit she also supplies lots of other perspectives. George and his Quaker allies have a "By any means necessary" approach to slavery, and Stowe goes out of her way to get us to root for their violent tactics. I wasn't expecting that, and I dug it.
Overall, the book is badly sentimental. Y'know, it's easy to make you have feels by describing, like, a woman whose children are stolen from her and then she gets raped. You don't have to be a good writer to make a scenario like that powerful. Stowe is an okay writer, but she pours on the pathos; she can't shut up about "isn't this awful?!" and I didn't really need it underlined. There are a couple people here who take like fifty pages to finish giving deathbed speeches about Jesus and you're like good lord, this makes Dickens seem aloof. It's annoying.
So look, this might be of interest to someone researching how white abolitionists felt back in the day; but it's not particularly good literature, and its ideas are woeful, and that doesn't leave much.
But it hasn't aged well. According to this book, here's
What Black People Are Like
- "The African, naturally patient, timid and unenterprising"
- "The negro is naturally more impressible to religious sentiment than the white"
- "The negro, it must be remembered, is an exotic of the most gorgeous and superb countries of this world, and he has, deep in his heart, a passion for all that is splendid, rich, and fanciful; a passion which, rudely indulged by an untrained taste, draws on them the ridicule of the colder and more correct white race."
I put more more quotes of this type in the comments below, if you're really interested.
This comes across as racist, because it totally is, and here's the thing: there were other people who wrote about slavery and did not make statements like these. Black people! Stowe's source for Uncle Tom himself, in fact, is Josiah Henson, whose real-life story you can read for free instead of this.
I know things were different back then, but I also don't think we need to over-complicate our historical relativism. If someone were to ask me what I'm reading and I were to feel compelled to explain myself - "I know it's racist, I'm not reading it because I like it..." then my conversation with the book as literature is condescending, and it's outlived its usefulness, and that's okay. It's okay if it did some good once and it's run out of good now. It's okay if it goes out of style. We don't have to, like, burn all the copies. But I do feel like when we have the opportunity to hear about oppression from the oppressed themselves, then that's better.
(It's true that slave narratives were written for white audiences, with specific goals and formulae, and often dictated to white ghost writers, so this isn't totally straight-forward. But slave narratives are anyway more authentic than Uncle Tom, I guess.)
Anyway, back to the actual book: Uncle Tom is frankly an Uncle Tom, but to Stowe's credit she also supplies lots of other perspectives. George and his Quaker allies have a "By any means necessary" approach to slavery, and Stowe goes out of her way to get us to root for their violent tactics. I wasn't expecting that, and I dug it.
Overall, the book is badly sentimental. Y'know, it's easy to make you have feels by describing, like, a woman whose children are stolen from her and then she gets raped. You don't have to be a good writer to make a scenario like that powerful. Stowe is an okay writer, but she pours on the pathos; she can't shut up about "isn't this awful?!" and I didn't really need it underlined. There are a couple people here who take like fifty pages to finish giving deathbed speeches about Jesus and you're like good lord, this makes Dickens seem aloof. It's annoying.
So look, this might be of interest to someone researching how white abolitionists felt back in the day; but it's not particularly good literature, and its ideas are woeful, and that doesn't leave much.
March 25, 2018
"Talk of the abuses of slavery! Humbug! The thing itself is the essence of all abuse!"
I remembered this quote from Uncle Tom's Cabin all of a sudden when I accidentally paraphrased it in a discussion on gun control at school. Some issues can't be solved by half-measures. They have to be abolished.
There are books that shape who you are. I remember when I first read Uncle Tom's Cabin as a young girl. Before that, I had only a vague idea of slavery in America as a historical phase, something I imagined as an evil that was no more. With this novel, I entered the world of rage. Literature has the power to engage where statistics leave you cold, it has the power to make you feel what other people feel, and to see what abstract terms mean in real, everyday life.
Decades later, teaching slave trade and abolitionist movements in Humanities classes, I still felt the anger, the sorrow, the shame. And I realised that literature does that to you - it gives you a social conscience if you are brave enough to compare notes and check your privileges.
The horrors of white supremacy can hardly be better told than in this tale of love and suffering and rage, so shocking to read as a young adult, and yet so necessary. I shudder when I think of our current political climate of hostility and intolerance towards any human beings that are distinctly different from our own tribe. And I feel both rage and sorrow as I know there are far too few adolescents today who are willing to put in the time and effort to read about historical brutality and injustice. I shudder when I think that Anne Frank's diary is considered boring by my students, too slow and lacking "action" (read: violence). Where are we heading if we don't listen to the literary voices of those who experienced past horrors? Where are we headed if we let profit and individual advantage stand above ethical behaviour and compassionate humanity? Where are we headed if we don't think our rights apply to others as well?
Make people desperate, and they won't be afraid to fight. Take away too much and they have nothing to lose, and nothing to fear. When it comes to human rights, there can be no grey zones, there can be no two class system, no discrimination. There can be no exemptions. We are all equally entitled to a life in freedom and dignity. Wherever we do not guarantee that, there will be rage. Beware of the signs in mainstream society:
"The country is almost ruined with pious white people: such pious politicians as we have just before elections, such pious goings on in all departments of church and state, that a fellow does not know who'll cheat him next."
Let's not be cheated. Let's look through the pious surface and see the egocentric hypocrites in their entitlement for what they are - instigators of violence. Let's do what is right by humankind rather than what is personally enriching or convenient.
Uncle Tom's Cabin taught me that. And I have been in a reading rage ever since!
I remembered this quote from Uncle Tom's Cabin all of a sudden when I accidentally paraphrased it in a discussion on gun control at school. Some issues can't be solved by half-measures. They have to be abolished.
There are books that shape who you are. I remember when I first read Uncle Tom's Cabin as a young girl. Before that, I had only a vague idea of slavery in America as a historical phase, something I imagined as an evil that was no more. With this novel, I entered the world of rage. Literature has the power to engage where statistics leave you cold, it has the power to make you feel what other people feel, and to see what abstract terms mean in real, everyday life.
Decades later, teaching slave trade and abolitionist movements in Humanities classes, I still felt the anger, the sorrow, the shame. And I realised that literature does that to you - it gives you a social conscience if you are brave enough to compare notes and check your privileges.
The horrors of white supremacy can hardly be better told than in this tale of love and suffering and rage, so shocking to read as a young adult, and yet so necessary. I shudder when I think of our current political climate of hostility and intolerance towards any human beings that are distinctly different from our own tribe. And I feel both rage and sorrow as I know there are far too few adolescents today who are willing to put in the time and effort to read about historical brutality and injustice. I shudder when I think that Anne Frank's diary is considered boring by my students, too slow and lacking "action" (read: violence). Where are we heading if we don't listen to the literary voices of those who experienced past horrors? Where are we headed if we let profit and individual advantage stand above ethical behaviour and compassionate humanity? Where are we headed if we don't think our rights apply to others as well?
Make people desperate, and they won't be afraid to fight. Take away too much and they have nothing to lose, and nothing to fear. When it comes to human rights, there can be no grey zones, there can be no two class system, no discrimination. There can be no exemptions. We are all equally entitled to a life in freedom and dignity. Wherever we do not guarantee that, there will be rage. Beware of the signs in mainstream society:
"The country is almost ruined with pious white people: such pious politicians as we have just before elections, such pious goings on in all departments of church and state, that a fellow does not know who'll cheat him next."
Let's not be cheated. Let's look through the pious surface and see the egocentric hypocrites in their entitlement for what they are - instigators of violence. Let's do what is right by humankind rather than what is personally enriching or convenient.
Uncle Tom's Cabin taught me that. And I have been in a reading rage ever since!
December 5, 2008
The main character of Uncle Tom's Cabin, and at least one of the minor characters, are frequently mocked by modern black activists, rappers and comedians. Therefore, when I began reading this novel, originally published in 1852, I was expecting a woefully-outdated story with painful, outrageous stereotypes and archaic language, and had prepared myself for a real struggle to navigate through it in order to see how this book mobilized people in the USA against slavery.
The story, its delivery and its characters turned out to be nothing like they have been portrayed to me over the years. Nothing. And more importantly, it is still a powerful call for justice and equality more than 150 years later.
It was a difficult read at first, but after the first 100 pages or so, I was hooked.
Harriet Beecher Stowe paints Tom not as subservient to white men -- or any men -- but as absolutely defiant, a man who serves only one master: Jesus Christ. Uncle Tom's defiance is in stark contrast to everything I've ever heard about him. Stowe never, ever implies in any way that slaves should work only to please their earth-bound masters and never pursue freedom or personal dignity -- contrary to what I've always heard. In addition to Tom, there's George, a representation of the intelligence and potential Stowe obviously felt every African American was capable. Stowe wasn't saying that Tom's way of defiance -- and his not pursuing escape -- was a better path than George's, who risks everything to escape with his family to Canada. Instead, she presents the myriad of ways people -- HUMANS -- react to and survive enslavement. Topsy isn't presented as I thought she would be -- a silly comic relief -- but as a girl who has never known anything but pain from and the contempt of others, and becomes whole only when she's offered full, unconditional love. There are NO one-dimensional portraits in the book -- the characters, white and black, portray a massive variety of values, philosophies, and thoughts of the time.
I was struck not only by how full, rich and diverse the characters were, but also, Stowe's condemnation not only of slavery itself, but of the North, for not wanting freed blacks to live among them, to work in their homes or live in their neighborhoods or attend their schools. She also condemns merciful slave owners, painting them just as bad as ruthless Is the book racist? By today's standards, yes, but no more than it's also sexist. It's dated, no question: the author will very occassionally say something about blacks -- or women -- that make me cringe. The slaves and freed men presented in the book are no more benign, lazy or lacking in values than most of the white people portrayed. But I challenge anyone who has READ the book to say that the stereotypes engrained into our psyche by various contemporary commentators were ever envisioned by the author. After reading , I've surmised that the stereotypes we hear about regarding the story are actually from the widely-seen and woefully inaccurate dramatizations of the book. And her text drips with a sarcasm, often addressed directly to the reader, that is jarring at times -- this woman hated slavery with every molecule of her body, and she presents, and skewers, every argument of the time in support of it.
The story, its delivery and its characters turned out to be nothing like they have been portrayed to me over the years. Nothing. And more importantly, it is still a powerful call for justice and equality more than 150 years later.
It was a difficult read at first, but after the first 100 pages or so, I was hooked.
Harriet Beecher Stowe paints Tom not as subservient to white men -- or any men -- but as absolutely defiant, a man who serves only one master: Jesus Christ. Uncle Tom's defiance is in stark contrast to everything I've ever heard about him. Stowe never, ever implies in any way that slaves should work only to please their earth-bound masters and never pursue freedom or personal dignity -- contrary to what I've always heard. In addition to Tom, there's George, a representation of the intelligence and potential Stowe obviously felt every African American was capable. Stowe wasn't saying that Tom's way of defiance -- and his not pursuing escape -- was a better path than George's, who risks everything to escape with his family to Canada. Instead, she presents the myriad of ways people -- HUMANS -- react to and survive enslavement. Topsy isn't presented as I thought she would be -- a silly comic relief -- but as a girl who has never known anything but pain from and the contempt of others, and becomes whole only when she's offered full, unconditional love. There are NO one-dimensional portraits in the book -- the characters, white and black, portray a massive variety of values, philosophies, and thoughts of the time.
I was struck not only by how full, rich and diverse the characters were, but also, Stowe's condemnation not only of slavery itself, but of the North, for not wanting freed blacks to live among them, to work in their homes or live in their neighborhoods or attend their schools. She also condemns merciful slave owners, painting them just as bad as ruthless Is the book racist? By today's standards, yes, but no more than it's also sexist. It's dated, no question: the author will very occassionally say something about blacks -- or women -- that make me cringe. The slaves and freed men presented in the book are no more benign, lazy or lacking in values than most of the white people portrayed. But I challenge anyone who has READ the book to say that the stereotypes engrained into our psyche by various contemporary commentators were ever envisioned by the author. After reading , I've surmised that the stereotypes we hear about regarding the story are actually from the widely-seen and woefully inaccurate dramatizations of the book. And her text drips with a sarcasm, often addressed directly to the reader, that is jarring at times -- this woman hated slavery with every molecule of her body, and she presents, and skewers, every argument of the time in support of it.
September 12, 2017
Book Review
4 out of 5 stars to , written in 1852 by . For some reason, we didn't read this book in high school; possibly an excerpt or two was thrown in front of us, but I honestly don't really remember reading it until freshman year of college. Prior to reading it, the silly and uneducated man I was thought Ms. Stowe was an African-American telling the story about slavery in America, not all that different from The Underground Railroad stories. Please forgive me, as I had difficulty reading books that showed the harsh slices of life and cruelties people suffered. It just doesn't cross my mind that I could ever treat someone differently because of what they look like or where they came from... and the immature part of me avoided reading about those who did. But it's important to read these types of books as sometimes it is the only way to open another's eyes.
Then it was listed on our syllabus to read in our spring semester for an English course. And I dove in since it was required. As I got into it, I realized how great the book actually was. And you know what, that's not the story at all. Ms. Stowe came from a Puritanical and religious family. She was an abolitionist. She wanted to fix the situation. And this book was one way she attempted to do so, by showing how any Christian could not believe in slavery. Though some of her ideas were a little too vague, and at times, she may even cross the line by doing a few of the things she tells people not to do.... the book really shines a necessary light on what people were thinking at the time. I feel like we might need to read this book again as a country... to figure out what the hell we're doing going back 150 years in time. But I don't get political, so enough of that.
With this book, you need to have some understanding of society, religion and culture in America's history. I wouldn't take it on without have a decent background in knowing how things came together from 1776 to 1856. Those 80 years were very strong but also very disparate... two countries were forming, not one in America. Having some knowledge of Puritan life is helpful too. Perhaps reading The Scarlet Letter first might give you some background. Everyone needs to read this book just to see what was going on in some folks' minds at this time. It may not change your views on the entire situation, but it will give you more to think about when it comes to religion's place in government, society and daily life. And I mean that as a philosophical and sociological discussion, not placing blame or positives and negatives on different groups of people. It's just the kind of book to get you talking about something which needed to be radically changed and fixed.
About Me
For those new to me or my reviews... here's the scoop: I read A LOT. I write A LOT. And now I blog A LOT. First the book review goes on 欧宝娱乐, and then I send it on over to my WordPress blog at , where you'll also find TV & Film reviews, the revealing and introspective 365 Daily Challenge and lots of blogging about places I've visited all over the world. And you can find all my social media profiles to get the details on the who/what/when/where and my pictures. Leave a comment and let me know what you think. Vote in the poll and ratings. Thanks for stopping by.
4 out of 5 stars to , written in 1852 by . For some reason, we didn't read this book in high school; possibly an excerpt or two was thrown in front of us, but I honestly don't really remember reading it until freshman year of college. Prior to reading it, the silly and uneducated man I was thought Ms. Stowe was an African-American telling the story about slavery in America, not all that different from The Underground Railroad stories. Please forgive me, as I had difficulty reading books that showed the harsh slices of life and cruelties people suffered. It just doesn't cross my mind that I could ever treat someone differently because of what they look like or where they came from... and the immature part of me avoided reading about those who did. But it's important to read these types of books as sometimes it is the only way to open another's eyes.
Then it was listed on our syllabus to read in our spring semester for an English course. And I dove in since it was required. As I got into it, I realized how great the book actually was. And you know what, that's not the story at all. Ms. Stowe came from a Puritanical and religious family. She was an abolitionist. She wanted to fix the situation. And this book was one way she attempted to do so, by showing how any Christian could not believe in slavery. Though some of her ideas were a little too vague, and at times, she may even cross the line by doing a few of the things she tells people not to do.... the book really shines a necessary light on what people were thinking at the time. I feel like we might need to read this book again as a country... to figure out what the hell we're doing going back 150 years in time. But I don't get political, so enough of that.
With this book, you need to have some understanding of society, religion and culture in America's history. I wouldn't take it on without have a decent background in knowing how things came together from 1776 to 1856. Those 80 years were very strong but also very disparate... two countries were forming, not one in America. Having some knowledge of Puritan life is helpful too. Perhaps reading The Scarlet Letter first might give you some background. Everyone needs to read this book just to see what was going on in some folks' minds at this time. It may not change your views on the entire situation, but it will give you more to think about when it comes to religion's place in government, society and daily life. And I mean that as a philosophical and sociological discussion, not placing blame or positives and negatives on different groups of people. It's just the kind of book to get you talking about something which needed to be radically changed and fixed.
About Me
For those new to me or my reviews... here's the scoop: I read A LOT. I write A LOT. And now I blog A LOT. First the book review goes on 欧宝娱乐, and then I send it on over to my WordPress blog at , where you'll also find TV & Film reviews, the revealing and introspective 365 Daily Challenge and lots of blogging about places I've visited all over the world. And you can find all my social media profiles to get the details on the who/what/when/where and my pictures. Leave a comment and let me know what you think. Vote in the poll and ratings. Thanks for stopping by.
October 12, 2024
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December 9, 2018
I鈥檓 going to keep this one very short and relatively sweet.
Uncle Tom鈥檚 Cabin is a wonderfully forward-thinking book full of optimism, hope and one that captures the simple and honest nature that comes with a genuine hero who is faced with tyranny. It鈥檚 a monumentally important book, historically speaking this is one of the most influential pieces of literature ever written. It worked towards humbling a racist white culture and helped bring an end to slavery in America, and it comes with a compelling story and a very strong character.
It鈥檚 great reading material, though sometimes hindered by its clunky dialogue and Dickensian descriptions. Not something to be missed even if the prose is a little choppy at times.
Uncle Tom鈥檚 Cabin is a wonderfully forward-thinking book full of optimism, hope and one that captures the simple and honest nature that comes with a genuine hero who is faced with tyranny. It鈥檚 a monumentally important book, historically speaking this is one of the most influential pieces of literature ever written. It worked towards humbling a racist white culture and helped bring an end to slavery in America, and it comes with a compelling story and a very strong character.
It鈥檚 great reading material, though sometimes hindered by its clunky dialogue and Dickensian descriptions. Not something to be missed even if the prose is a little choppy at times.
March 16, 2017
賯乇丕亍 丕賱乇賵丕賷丕鬲 丿賵賲賸丕 賲丕 賷噩丿賵賳 兀賳賮爻賴賲 賮賷 夭丕賵賷丞 賷囟胤乇賵賳 賲賳 禺賱丕賱賴丕 丕賱丿賮丕毓 丿賵賲賸丕 毓賳 鬲賱賰 丕賱乇睾亘丞 賵丕賱毓丕丿丞 賮賷 賯乇丕亍鬲賴丕 賵丕賱丕爻鬲賲鬲丕毓 亘賴丕貙 賵乇睾賲 兀賳 丕賱鬲賮囟賷賱 丕賱卮禺氐賷 賵囟乇賵乇丞 丕賱丕禺鬲賷丕乇 亘丨乇賷丞 賵丕賱賲鬲毓丞 丕賱鬲賷 賷丨氐賱 毓賱賷賴丕 丕賱賮乇丿 賲賳 賯乇丕亍丞 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞 賴賷 噩賲賷毓賴丕 兀爻亘丕亘 賱丕 鬲賲賳毓 賯乇丕亍 丕賱賰購鬲亘 賲賳 丕賱賳馗乇 亘丕夭丿乇丕亍 賱賯乇丕亍 丕賱乇賵丕賷丕鬲 (兀賵 丨鬲賶 賲賳 鬲賳丿賲噩 賯乇丕亍丕鬲賴賲 亘賷賳 丕賱乇賵丕賷丕鬲 賵丕賱賰購鬲亘 賲孬賱賷賾) 賮廿賳 丕賱爻亘亘 丕賱乇卅賷爻賷 賵丕賱兀賯賵賶 賮賷 乇兀賷賷 賴賵 賲丕 鬲丨丿孬賴 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞 賲賳 兀孬乇 賮賷 賳賮爻 丕賱賯丕乇卅 丨鬲賶 賵廿賳 賱賲 鬲賰賳 乇賵丕賷丞 噩賷丿丞 亘丕賱廿噩賲丕毓 賮賷賰賮賷 兀賳賴丕 兀孬乇鬲 賮賷 丨賷丕丞 賵賵毓賷 賯丕乇卅 賲丕 賵賮賷 賳馗乇鬲賴 賱賱兀卮賷丕亍 賲賳 丨賵賱賴 賵賴匕丕 賴賵 丕賱賮丕乇賯 亘賷賳 賯乇丕亍丞 乇賵丕賷丞 賵賯乇丕亍丞 賰鬲丕亘 賮賷 毓賱賲 丕賱賳賮爻 兀賵 毓賱賲 丕賱丕噩鬲賲丕毓 賮亘丿賱丕賸 賲賳 兀賳 鬲氐賱 丕賱賮賰乇丞 亘兀賰丕丿賷賲賷丞 賮賷 卮賰賱 賲毓賱賵賲丕鬲賷 氐乇賮 鬲氐賱 亘廿賳爻丕賳賷丞 兀賰亘乇 鬲乇爻禺賴丕 丿丕禺賱 賳賮爻 賯丕乇卅賴丕 亘卮賰賱 兀毓賲賯.
賵廿匕丕 兀禺匕賳丕 賮賷 丕賱丕毓鬲亘丕乇 丨賯賷賯丞 兀賳 賲孬賱 賴匕賴 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞 兀孬乇鬲 賱丕 賮賷 賮乇丿/賯丕乇卅 賵丕丨丿 賮賯胤 亘賱 賮賷 丨賷丕丞 賮卅丞 賲丕貙 賵兀賳 賴匕賴 丕賱賮卅丞 賴賷 賮卅丞 兀賯賱賷丞 賲囟胤賴丿丞 鬲毓賷卮 賮賷 賲賰丕賳丞 兀賯賱 賲賳 賲賰丕賳丞 丕賱丨賷賵丕賳丕鬲 丨賷賳賴丕 鬲氐亘丨 賴匕賴 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞 賴賷 兀丨丿賶 兀賴賲 丕賱兀賲孬賱丞 丕賱鬲賷 賷噩亘 兀賳 賳匕賰乇賴丕 丨賷賳 賷丨丕賵賱 兀丨丿賴賲 丕賱鬲賯賱賷賱 賲賳 丕賱卮兀賳 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞 (賵丕賱兀丿亘 亘卮賰賱 毓丕賲) 賵丕賱兀孬乇 丕賱匕賷 賷賲賰賳 賱賴 兀賳 賷丨丿孬賴 賮賷 丨賷丕丞 丕賱亘卮乇
亘毓囟 丕賱兀毓賲丕賱 鬲賰賵賳 毓氐賷丞 毓賱賶 丕賱賳賯丿 賵丕賱鬲賯賷賷賲 賲賳 丕賱賳丕丨賷丞 丕賱鬲丕乇賷禺賷丞貙 賲賳 丕賱氐丿賶 丕賱匕賷 鬲鬲乇賰賴 賮賷 亘賷卅鬲賴丕 兀孬賳丕亍 氐丿賵乇賴丕 賵廿匕丕 兀禺匕賳丕 賮賷 丕賱丕毓鬲亘丕乇 丨賯賷賯丞 兀賳 賲孬賱 賴匕賴 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞 -賵丕賱鬲賷 賷噩亘 兀賳 兀賱丨 毓賱賶 兀賳 賰丕鬲亘鬲賴丕 丕賲乇兀丞- 兀賯賵賱 兀賳賴丕 賰丕賳鬲 爻亘亘賸丕 賮賷 賯賷丕賲 丕賱丨乇亘 丕賱兀賴賱賷丞 丕賱兀賲乇賷賰賷丞 賵鬲丨乇賷乇 丕賱毓亘賷丿 丨賷賳賴丕 賷購氐亘丨 賲孬賱 賴匕丕 丕賱毓賲賱 毓氐賷賾 毓賱賶 丕賱賳賯丿 賳賴丕賷賸丕 賴匕丕 賮囟賱丕賸 毓賳 兀賳賴 賱丕 賷噩亘 兀賳 賷禺囟毓 賱賱鬲賯賷賷賲貙 賱賰賳賳賷 亘丿兀鬲賴丕 賰賯丕乇卅 賲賳 賲賰丕賳 賲禺鬲賱賮 賵亘賷卅丞 賲禺鬲賱賮丞 亘賱 賵夭賲丕賳 丌禺乇 鬲賲丕賲賸丕 賵毓丕賲賱 丕賱夭賲賳 禺丕氐丞 賴賵 兀丨丿 兀賴賲 丕賱兀爻亘丕亘 丕賱鬲賷 鬲噩毓賱賳賷 乇睾賲 丕丨鬲乇丕賲賷 賱賰孬賷乇 賲賳 丕賱賰購鬲丕亘 賵賯囟賷鬲賴賲 賵鬲兀孬賷乇 兀毓賲丕賱賴賲 丨賷賳 丕賯乇兀賴丕 兀鬲毓乇囟 賱賴丕 亘丕賱賳賯丿 賵廿匕丕 丨賰賲鬲 毓賱賶 賴匕賴 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞 賲賳 丕賱賳丕丨賷丞 丕賱兀丿亘賷丞 爻兀賯賵賱 兀賳賴丕 囟毓賷賮丞 賳賵毓賸丕 賲丕
毓賱賶 丕賱乇睾賲 賲賳 賰孬乇丞 丕賱賯氐氐 丕賱鬲賷 鬲氐賮 賲兀爻丕丞 丕賱毓亘賷丿貨 亘賷毓賴賲 賵卮乇丕卅賴賲 賵賰兀賳賴賲 賯胤毓 兀孬丕孬貙 賮氐賱賴賲 毓賳 匕賵賷賴賲 賵賰兀賳賴賲 丨賷賵丕賳丕鬲 亘賱丕 卮毓賵乇 亘丌賱丕賱丕賲 丕賱賮賯丿 廿賱丕 兀賳 鬲賱賰 丕賱賰孬乇丞 賱賲 鬲爻丕賴賲 賮賷 廿賷氐丕賱 丕賱賲兀爻丕丞 廿賱賶 賳賮爻 丕賱賯丕乇卅 亘卮賰賱 兀毓賲賯 毓賱賶 丕賱毓賰爻 賰賳鬲 兀卮毓乇 兀賳 丕賱賯氐氐 賲賮賰賰丞 賵兀賳 丕賱乇丕亘胤 亘賷賳賴賲 囟毓賷賮 賱賱睾丕賷丞 賱丕 爻賷賲丕 丨賷賳 丕亘鬲丿兀鬲 丕賱賯氐丞 亘丨賷丕丞 卮禺氐賷賳 孬賲 丕賳丨乇賮鬲 賱賱鬲丨丿孬 毓賳 兀卮禺丕氐 丌禺乇賷賳 賱鬲乇亘胤賴賲 噩賲賷毓賸丕 亘賳賴丕賷丞 賲賮丕噩卅丞 兀卮亘賴 亘賳賴丕賷丕鬲 丕賱兀賮賱丕賲 丕賱毓乇亘賷丞 丕賱爻毓賷丿丞 賵賱賲賾 丕賱卮賲賱貙 賴賳丕 卮毓乇鬲 兀賳 丕賱丨亘賰丞 兀賷囟賸丕 囟毓賷賮丞 賵兀賳 賲丕 丕賯乇兀賴 賴賵 卮匕乇丕鬲 賱賲禺胤賵胤丞 乇賵丕卅賷丞 賱賷爻 廿賱丕.
乇睾賲 賰賱 卮賷亍貙 鬲亘賯賶 兀賴賲賷丞 丕賱毓賲賱 賵賷亘賯賶 丕賱兀孬乇
鬲賲賾鬲
賵廿匕丕 兀禺匕賳丕 賮賷 丕賱丕毓鬲亘丕乇 丨賯賷賯丞 兀賳 賲孬賱 賴匕賴 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞 兀孬乇鬲 賱丕 賮賷 賮乇丿/賯丕乇卅 賵丕丨丿 賮賯胤 亘賱 賮賷 丨賷丕丞 賮卅丞 賲丕貙 賵兀賳 賴匕賴 丕賱賮卅丞 賴賷 賮卅丞 兀賯賱賷丞 賲囟胤賴丿丞 鬲毓賷卮 賮賷 賲賰丕賳丞 兀賯賱 賲賳 賲賰丕賳丞 丕賱丨賷賵丕賳丕鬲 丨賷賳賴丕 鬲氐亘丨 賴匕賴 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞 賴賷 兀丨丿賶 兀賴賲 丕賱兀賲孬賱丞 丕賱鬲賷 賷噩亘 兀賳 賳匕賰乇賴丕 丨賷賳 賷丨丕賵賱 兀丨丿賴賲 丕賱鬲賯賱賷賱 賲賳 丕賱卮兀賳 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞 (賵丕賱兀丿亘 亘卮賰賱 毓丕賲) 賵丕賱兀孬乇 丕賱匕賷 賷賲賰賳 賱賴 兀賳 賷丨丿孬賴 賮賷 丨賷丕丞 丕賱亘卮乇
亘毓囟 丕賱兀毓賲丕賱 鬲賰賵賳 毓氐賷丞 毓賱賶 丕賱賳賯丿 賵丕賱鬲賯賷賷賲 賲賳 丕賱賳丕丨賷丞 丕賱鬲丕乇賷禺賷丞貙 賲賳 丕賱氐丿賶 丕賱匕賷 鬲鬲乇賰賴 賮賷 亘賷卅鬲賴丕 兀孬賳丕亍 氐丿賵乇賴丕 賵廿匕丕 兀禺匕賳丕 賮賷 丕賱丕毓鬲亘丕乇 丨賯賷賯丞 兀賳 賲孬賱 賴匕賴 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞 -賵丕賱鬲賷 賷噩亘 兀賳 兀賱丨 毓賱賶 兀賳 賰丕鬲亘鬲賴丕 丕賲乇兀丞- 兀賯賵賱 兀賳賴丕 賰丕賳鬲 爻亘亘賸丕 賮賷 賯賷丕賲 丕賱丨乇亘 丕賱兀賴賱賷丞 丕賱兀賲乇賷賰賷丞 賵鬲丨乇賷乇 丕賱毓亘賷丿 丨賷賳賴丕 賷購氐亘丨 賲孬賱 賴匕丕 丕賱毓賲賱 毓氐賷賾 毓賱賶 丕賱賳賯丿 賳賴丕賷賸丕 賴匕丕 賮囟賱丕賸 毓賳 兀賳賴 賱丕 賷噩亘 兀賳 賷禺囟毓 賱賱鬲賯賷賷賲貙 賱賰賳賳賷 亘丿兀鬲賴丕 賰賯丕乇卅 賲賳 賲賰丕賳 賲禺鬲賱賮 賵亘賷卅丞 賲禺鬲賱賮丞 亘賱 賵夭賲丕賳 丌禺乇 鬲賲丕賲賸丕 賵毓丕賲賱 丕賱夭賲賳 禺丕氐丞 賴賵 兀丨丿 兀賴賲 丕賱兀爻亘丕亘 丕賱鬲賷 鬲噩毓賱賳賷 乇睾賲 丕丨鬲乇丕賲賷 賱賰孬賷乇 賲賳 丕賱賰購鬲丕亘 賵賯囟賷鬲賴賲 賵鬲兀孬賷乇 兀毓賲丕賱賴賲 丨賷賳 丕賯乇兀賴丕 兀鬲毓乇囟 賱賴丕 亘丕賱賳賯丿 賵廿匕丕 丨賰賲鬲 毓賱賶 賴匕賴 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞 賲賳 丕賱賳丕丨賷丞 丕賱兀丿亘賷丞 爻兀賯賵賱 兀賳賴丕 囟毓賷賮丞 賳賵毓賸丕 賲丕
毓賱賶 丕賱乇睾賲 賲賳 賰孬乇丞 丕賱賯氐氐 丕賱鬲賷 鬲氐賮 賲兀爻丕丞 丕賱毓亘賷丿貨 亘賷毓賴賲 賵卮乇丕卅賴賲 賵賰兀賳賴賲 賯胤毓 兀孬丕孬貙 賮氐賱賴賲 毓賳 匕賵賷賴賲 賵賰兀賳賴賲 丨賷賵丕賳丕鬲 亘賱丕 卮毓賵乇 亘丌賱丕賱丕賲 丕賱賮賯丿 廿賱丕 兀賳 鬲賱賰 丕賱賰孬乇丞 賱賲 鬲爻丕賴賲 賮賷 廿賷氐丕賱 丕賱賲兀爻丕丞 廿賱賶 賳賮爻 丕賱賯丕乇卅 亘卮賰賱 兀毓賲賯 毓賱賶 丕賱毓賰爻 賰賳鬲 兀卮毓乇 兀賳 丕賱賯氐氐 賲賮賰賰丞 賵兀賳 丕賱乇丕亘胤 亘賷賳賴賲 囟毓賷賮 賱賱睾丕賷丞 賱丕 爻賷賲丕 丨賷賳 丕亘鬲丿兀鬲 丕賱賯氐丞 亘丨賷丕丞 卮禺氐賷賳 孬賲 丕賳丨乇賮鬲 賱賱鬲丨丿孬 毓賳 兀卮禺丕氐 丌禺乇賷賳 賱鬲乇亘胤賴賲 噩賲賷毓賸丕 亘賳賴丕賷丞 賲賮丕噩卅丞 兀卮亘賴 亘賳賴丕賷丕鬲 丕賱兀賮賱丕賲 丕賱毓乇亘賷丞 丕賱爻毓賷丿丞 賵賱賲賾 丕賱卮賲賱貙 賴賳丕 卮毓乇鬲 兀賳 丕賱丨亘賰丞 兀賷囟賸丕 囟毓賷賮丞 賵兀賳 賲丕 丕賯乇兀賴 賴賵 卮匕乇丕鬲 賱賲禺胤賵胤丞 乇賵丕卅賷丞 賱賷爻 廿賱丕.
乇睾賲 賰賱 卮賷亍貙 鬲亘賯賶 兀賴賲賷丞 丕賱毓賲賱 賵賷亘賯賶 丕賱兀孬乇
鬲賲賾鬲
December 17, 2017
Entertainment Weekly has an interview they do in which they ask famous authors, in this case Ursula K. le Guin, several questions in a one page format about who their favorite writers are, etc. In this article, le Guin said that she liked to reread Uncle Tom's Cabin. She said many are astonished at this preference and act as if she was extolling a racist screed. Having never read it and liking Ursula K. le Guin, I decided to try it. A polemic on the heinous, Uncle Tom's Cabinet is written in such a matter-of-fact way that it ascends to greatness.
I almost felt like I was reading an adventure story and couldn't wait until I found out what happened to Eva, St. Clare, George and Eliza, Cassie and Emelline and of course Uncle Tom. Harriet Beecher Stowe took real incidents and added them to the story for verisimilitude. It also reminded me of my beloved dystopian novels. In many of these, horrible things have become common place, such as children fighting to compete for food. I couldn't fathom that we in the U.S. used to sell people and own them and torture and kill them or have sex with them as we saw fit. The only reason I would not give it 5 stars is because of the extreme goodness of Uncle Tom in the midst of troubles that would destroy, even Job.
I almost felt like I was reading an adventure story and couldn't wait until I found out what happened to Eva, St. Clare, George and Eliza, Cassie and Emelline and of course Uncle Tom. Harriet Beecher Stowe took real incidents and added them to the story for verisimilitude. It also reminded me of my beloved dystopian novels. In many of these, horrible things have become common place, such as children fighting to compete for food. I couldn't fathom that we in the U.S. used to sell people and own them and torture and kill them or have sex with them as we saw fit. The only reason I would not give it 5 stars is because of the extreme goodness of Uncle Tom in the midst of troubles that would destroy, even Job.
May 25, 2009
Important? Yes. Good? No.
May 2, 2024
"..., though not happy wholly, we were not, either, wholly miserable."
It has been argued that Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin has been the most influential novel in the history of the USA. Therefore, it probably deserves a 4plus rating on the strength of its historical significance. However, it lacks the readability modern audiences expect, and a typical modern reader might have a reading experience that's below average.
Uncle Tom's Cabin was first published by Stowe in 1852, and her intended audience for this book was white Christians in the northern states of the Antebellum United States. Stowe intended to demonstrate the evils of slavery to northern white Christians.
Stowe's novel does do a good job of providing relatable and believable situations that illustrate to the reader the multiple evils of slavery. At times, some of these illustrations seem more like propaganda than education, but that is consistent with the author's intentions.
Hopefully the modern reader is already aware of the evils of slavery, and, if not, there are modern resources that provide a better presentation of slavery and the prewar factors that lead up to the American Civil War. However, this novel is definitely required reading for (a) students of the USA Civil War and (b) students of 19th century American literature.
I read the first ten chapters, but I felt my mental interpretation of the text was bland and boring, so I listened to an audiobook read by Richard Allen to finish this book. As you might imagine, I didn鈥檛 enjoy this book's religious emphasis, but I did manage to survive.
My rating is rounded up to 3.
It has been argued that Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin has been the most influential novel in the history of the USA. Therefore, it probably deserves a 4plus rating on the strength of its historical significance. However, it lacks the readability modern audiences expect, and a typical modern reader might have a reading experience that's below average.
Uncle Tom's Cabin was first published by Stowe in 1852, and her intended audience for this book was white Christians in the northern states of the Antebellum United States. Stowe intended to demonstrate the evils of slavery to northern white Christians.
Stowe's novel does do a good job of providing relatable and believable situations that illustrate to the reader the multiple evils of slavery. At times, some of these illustrations seem more like propaganda than education, but that is consistent with the author's intentions.
Hopefully the modern reader is already aware of the evils of slavery, and, if not, there are modern resources that provide a better presentation of slavery and the prewar factors that lead up to the American Civil War. However, this novel is definitely required reading for (a) students of the USA Civil War and (b) students of 19th century American literature.
I read the first ten chapters, but I felt my mental interpretation of the text was bland and boring, so I listened to an audiobook read by Richard Allen to finish this book. As you might imagine, I didn鈥檛 enjoy this book's religious emphasis, but I did manage to survive.
My rating is rounded up to 3.
August 7, 2024
丕賱丨賯賷賯丞 兀賳 賴匕賴 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞 賴賷 鬲爻賱賷胤 賱賱囟賵亍 毓賱賷 丕賱丨賯亘丞 丕賱賲馗賱賲丞 賮賷 鬲丕乇賷禺 兀賲乇賷賰丕 亘賱 賵賰兀賳賳丕 賳鬲丕亘毓 爻賱爻賱丞 賲賳 丕賱兀賱賲 丕賱賱丕 賲鬲賳丕賴賷 賲賳 兀賱賲 賮乇丕賯 丕賱兀丨亘丞 貙 賵兀賱賲 丕賱爻賵胤 丕賱匕賷 賷爻賮毓 噩賱丿賰 爻賮毓丕 貙 賵兀賱賲 丕賱賲毓丕賳丕丞 賲賳 兀噩賱 丕賱丨乇賷丞 貙 賵兀賱賲 卮毓賵乇 丕賱丿賵賳賷丞 丕賱匕賷 賷賳賴卮賰 廿孬乇 鬲賱賯賷賰 賲毓丕賲賱丞 賵乇毓丕賷丞 兀賯賱 賲賳 賲毓丕賲賱丞 賵乇毓丕賷丞 丕賱丨賷賵丕賳 賮丕賱丨賷賵丕賳 兀乇賯賷 賲賳賰 貙 兀賳鬲 鬲賵賱丿 賮賷 賴匕賴 丕賱兀乇囟 賱鬲賰賵賳 囟賲賳 賲賲鬲賱賰丕鬲 丕丨丿 丕禺乇 賱丕 丨賯 賱賰 賮賷 兀賷 卮卅 睾賷乇 鬲賱亘賷丞 乇睾亘丕鬲 賲丕賱賰賰 .
賵丕賱兀賳 賲丕 賴賷 賲爻兀賱丞 丕賱丕爻鬲乇賯丕賯 賴匕賴 丕賱鬲賷 賷賱毓賳賴丕 丕賱賱賴 賵丕賱賳丕爻 責 賱賳噩乇丿賴丕 賲賳 丨賱賷賴丕 噩賲賷毓丕 賵賳賳馗乇 廿賱賷 賳賵丕鬲賴丕 賵噩匕賵乇賴丕 貙賮賲丕匕丕 賳噩丿 責 賳噩丿 兀賳賴 亘爻亘亘 賲賳 兀賳 兀禺賷 丕賱夭賳噩賷 (賰賵丕卮賷) 貙 噩丕賴賱 賵囟毓賷賮 貙 賮賷 丨賷賳 兀賳賷 匕賰賷 賵賯賵賷 貙 賷噩賵夭 賱賷 兀賳 兀爻賱亘賴 賰賱 賲丕 毓賳丿賴 孬賲 賱丕 兀毓胤賷賴 廿賱丕 亘賯丿乇 賲丕 賷丨賱賵 賱賷 貙 賵兀賮乇囟 毓賱賷賴 丕賱賯賷丕賲 亘賰賱 毓賲賱 兀毓鬲賯丿 兀賳賴 賲乇賴賯 賵賯匕乇 賵亘爻亘亘 賲賳 兀賳賷 賱丕 兀丨亘 丕賱毓賲賱 賷鬲毓賷賳 毓賱賷 (賰賵丕卮賷) 兀賳 賷毓賲賱 . 賵亘爻亘亘 兀賳 丕賱卮賲爻 鬲賱賮丨 賵噩賴賷 亘賳丕乇賴丕 賷鬲丨鬲賲 毓賱賷 (賰賵丕卮賷) 兀賳 賷賰爻亘 丕賱賲丕賱 貙 賵賱賷 兀賳丕 丨賯 廿賳賮丕賯賴 . 賵毓賱賷賴 兀賳 賷賳賮匕 廿乇丕丿鬲賷 貙賱丕 廿乇丕丿鬲賴 貙胤賵丕賱 兀賷丕賲 丨賷丕鬲賴 丕賱賮丕賳賷丞 貙 賵賱賳 賷賰賵賳 賱賴 賳氐賷亘 賮賷 丿禺賵賱 丕賱噩賳丞 兀禺乇 丕賱兀賲乇 貙 廿賱丕 丨賷賳 兀噩丿 匕丕賱賰 賲賳丕爻亘丕 .
賱丕 鬲賳爻賵 丕賱丿毓丕亍 賱廿禺賵鬲賳丕 亘賮賱爻胤賷賳 賵亘丕賱爻賵丿丕賳 賵賱賰賱 丕賱賲馗賱賵賲賷賳.
February 20, 2018
For me, the story is a sharp contrast between freedom obtained by George, Eliza, and their children in Canada versus what happens to Uncle Tom in bondage, i.e, his painful death, but in dignity. The two parallel stories increase the beauties of each other, enhanced further by Aunt Chloe's desperate efforts to save Tom till the end, and by the poetic justice delivered to the brutal slave owner at the end.
Add to that Stowe's understanding the heart of a mother: the more defective the child is, the more the mother loves. It's so true!
Via the vivid details surrounding separation of families imposed by slavery, also contrasted by acts of bravery from some whites along the way, Stowe has powerfully painted their depths of faith, without appearing preachy. And the sharp opposition between St Clare and his wife (Marie)! I can see such a snobbish, lazy, fastidious 'malade imaginaire' like Marie right here in France, even today. The death of Little Eva is a real heartbreaker, though.
I shall return to read this novel more than once.
Add to that Stowe's understanding the heart of a mother: the more defective the child is, the more the mother loves. It's so true!
Via the vivid details surrounding separation of families imposed by slavery, also contrasted by acts of bravery from some whites along the way, Stowe has powerfully painted their depths of faith, without appearing preachy. And the sharp opposition between St Clare and his wife (Marie)! I can see such a snobbish, lazy, fastidious 'malade imaginaire' like Marie right here in France, even today. The death of Little Eva is a real heartbreaker, though.
I shall return to read this novel more than once.
May 5, 2012
I think the saddest thing about this book is that everybody remembers Uncle Tom, even if only as a particularly ugly byword, but nobody remembers George Harris.
"I am George Harris. A Mr. Harris, of Kentucky, did call me his property. But now I'm a free man, standing on God's free soil; and my wife and my child I claim as mine... You can come up, if you like, but the first one of you that comes within the range of our bullets is a dead man."
He is a hell of a character, and one of the few here that could exit the pages of this book and stand his own ground in the pages of another one.
That's the difficulty with Uncle Tom's Cabin, at least for me: if you judge it by our modern sensibilities about what a novel should be and do, it doesn't hold up at all. The characters are mostly one- or two-dimensional figures, often exaggerated past all believability, who are sketched out to serve an obvious purpose. Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote every page of this book to rail against slavery, and although she skewers her subject from a hundred different ways and angles, that is really her only aim. For us in the 21st century, for whom slavery has melted away from all but the darkest corners of the world, this is pretty much preaching to the choir.
Let me tell you why it's still an amazing book.
You might know that it was written in 1852 - a time in which the issue of slavery was boiling over in Congress and at dinner tables across the nation, but still almost ten years before the breakup of the United States and the start of the Civil War. In 2012, it is still FRIGHTENING to read this book, to listen to the author decry slavery by every means imaginable - from sarcastic narrative whispers to naked, screaming invective - and to almost hear the desperation in her voice as she throws herself bodily against this massive, monstrous evil, which for her has no imaginable end. In the last pages, she talks with faint hope about Liberia, where she imagines American slaves could go to construct a nation of their own, but that's it. At the time when she put pen to paper, this author went to bed at night and rose in the morning knowing that human beings were still suffering and dying by the millions. 160 years later, we've long since ended slavery in America, but that fear and anger and almost-hopeless despair is still fresh on the page.
So I guess what I'm saying is, absolutely do read this book - and when you do, read it less for the plot and more for the real, non-fiction people who inspired it.
And also for George Harris, 19th-century action hero.
"I am George Harris. A Mr. Harris, of Kentucky, did call me his property. But now I'm a free man, standing on God's free soil; and my wife and my child I claim as mine... You can come up, if you like, but the first one of you that comes within the range of our bullets is a dead man."
He is a hell of a character, and one of the few here that could exit the pages of this book and stand his own ground in the pages of another one.
That's the difficulty with Uncle Tom's Cabin, at least for me: if you judge it by our modern sensibilities about what a novel should be and do, it doesn't hold up at all. The characters are mostly one- or two-dimensional figures, often exaggerated past all believability, who are sketched out to serve an obvious purpose. Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote every page of this book to rail against slavery, and although she skewers her subject from a hundred different ways and angles, that is really her only aim. For us in the 21st century, for whom slavery has melted away from all but the darkest corners of the world, this is pretty much preaching to the choir.
Let me tell you why it's still an amazing book.
You might know that it was written in 1852 - a time in which the issue of slavery was boiling over in Congress and at dinner tables across the nation, but still almost ten years before the breakup of the United States and the start of the Civil War. In 2012, it is still FRIGHTENING to read this book, to listen to the author decry slavery by every means imaginable - from sarcastic narrative whispers to naked, screaming invective - and to almost hear the desperation in her voice as she throws herself bodily against this massive, monstrous evil, which for her has no imaginable end. In the last pages, she talks with faint hope about Liberia, where she imagines American slaves could go to construct a nation of their own, but that's it. At the time when she put pen to paper, this author went to bed at night and rose in the morning knowing that human beings were still suffering and dying by the millions. 160 years later, we've long since ended slavery in America, but that fear and anger and almost-hopeless despair is still fresh on the page.
So I guess what I'm saying is, absolutely do read this book - and when you do, read it less for the plot and more for the real, non-fiction people who inspired it.
And also for George Harris, 19th-century action hero.
August 20, 2012
I decided to pick this 1852 book up because this was said to be the inspiration of our national hero, (1861-1896) for writing his masterpiece novel, (published in 1887). I thought I would like to compare this with Noli to see how original or unoriginal Rizal was.
My verdict: Noli and Uncle Tom's Cabin are totally different from each other except for one thing and that is the lowly's fight for freedom from slavery. Lowly in Noli are the indios or native Filipinos. Lowly in Uncle Tom's Cabin are the black African slaves.
The story is about Uncle Tom who is a principled and dutiful slave, a husband to Aunt Chloe. At the start of the story, his cabin, when he was still with the Shelby's, was where the black slaves gathered to pray and sing songs of praise to the Good Lord. Some say that this book is just a big glorified religious propaganda and the characters are nothing but caricatures. I do not agree to both of these. Maybe because I just read Noli and I was able to relate the sufferings of the illiterate Filipinos with the black pre-Civil War slaves as they only have God to cling unto in their desperation to have freedom.
Many of the characters cannot be caricatures because they practically leaped out from the pages to my brain while reading. Some of them transformed in the course of the novel particularly Ophelia who is an abolitionist but secretly despises the blacks. I think most of us can relate to her character because it is sometimes easy to say that we condone discrimination but deep inside we harbor prejudices against a certain race, religion, gender, age and even sexual preference. It is only when Ophelia is asked by St. Claire to take care of Topsy that Ophelia develops a caring attitude towards blacks. With her character, Stowe made us all realize that sometimes, unknowingly, we harbor some bias against some people and it is only when we reach out to them that we get to have a good appreciation of who they are.
The book is surprisingly quite easy to read. There are many poignant scenes but the ones that got permanently etched in my mind are: first, the scene when Eliza and her small son are crossing the river and the son who is hungry, thirsty and sleepy keeps himself awake because he fears that his momma will give him to a man if he falls asleep. The scene is short but I had to pause and close the book because I was so sad; and second, the scene when the wicked sex-maniac slaveowner Leglee is asking Uncle Tom to whip another black slave. Tom refuses. Insulted, Leglee whips Tom until Tom is almost dead. This scene broke my heart that I have to stop reading this book in a day or two because it was too sad I had to start reading Dag Hammarskjold and ask where was God when the black African slaves were treated as commodities in America. Truly a sad phase in that great nation's history.
Now I understand how our national hero Jose Rizal was moved by this novel that he decided to sit down and write his own novel. Our Rizal wrote about the sad flight of his own people. If Harriet Beecher Stowe was this little woman who started the Civil War, Jose Rizal (5'2") as this little man who started the Philippine Revolution in 1896 against the Spanish colonizers.
Two short people. But two great tall books. Books that launched and propelled races to take arms and fight for what they believed was right.
Bravo to all the shorties of this world!
My verdict: Noli and Uncle Tom's Cabin are totally different from each other except for one thing and that is the lowly's fight for freedom from slavery. Lowly in Noli are the indios or native Filipinos. Lowly in Uncle Tom's Cabin are the black African slaves.
The story is about Uncle Tom who is a principled and dutiful slave, a husband to Aunt Chloe. At the start of the story, his cabin, when he was still with the Shelby's, was where the black slaves gathered to pray and sing songs of praise to the Good Lord. Some say that this book is just a big glorified religious propaganda and the characters are nothing but caricatures. I do not agree to both of these. Maybe because I just read Noli and I was able to relate the sufferings of the illiterate Filipinos with the black pre-Civil War slaves as they only have God to cling unto in their desperation to have freedom.
Many of the characters cannot be caricatures because they practically leaped out from the pages to my brain while reading. Some of them transformed in the course of the novel particularly Ophelia who is an abolitionist but secretly despises the blacks. I think most of us can relate to her character because it is sometimes easy to say that we condone discrimination but deep inside we harbor prejudices against a certain race, religion, gender, age and even sexual preference. It is only when Ophelia is asked by St. Claire to take care of Topsy that Ophelia develops a caring attitude towards blacks. With her character, Stowe made us all realize that sometimes, unknowingly, we harbor some bias against some people and it is only when we reach out to them that we get to have a good appreciation of who they are.
The book is surprisingly quite easy to read. There are many poignant scenes but the ones that got permanently etched in my mind are: first, the scene when Eliza and her small son are crossing the river and the son who is hungry, thirsty and sleepy keeps himself awake because he fears that his momma will give him to a man if he falls asleep. The scene is short but I had to pause and close the book because I was so sad; and second, the scene when the wicked sex-maniac slaveowner Leglee is asking Uncle Tom to whip another black slave. Tom refuses. Insulted, Leglee whips Tom until Tom is almost dead. This scene broke my heart that I have to stop reading this book in a day or two because it was too sad I had to start reading Dag Hammarskjold and ask where was God when the black African slaves were treated as commodities in America. Truly a sad phase in that great nation's history.
Now I understand how our national hero Jose Rizal was moved by this novel that he decided to sit down and write his own novel. Our Rizal wrote about the sad flight of his own people. If Harriet Beecher Stowe was this little woman who started the Civil War, Jose Rizal (5'2") as this little man who started the Philippine Revolution in 1896 against the Spanish colonizers.
Two short people. But two great tall books. Books that launched and propelled races to take arms and fight for what they believed was right.
Bravo to all the shorties of this world!
May 11, 2016
I jist done readin thar book, why, Mas鈥檙, it don鈥檛 make no sense to me. Why a man get treated like a dog by another man and the law is all right with that? I knoe it dont mean nuthin now we is all civilased with iPads and lor knows what, but whar was it ever OK?
Slave narratives are morbidly fascinating to me, it amazes me that slavery was ever 鈥渁 thing鈥� in civilized countries.
Uncle Tom's Cabin tells the story of a faithful, kind and extremely pious 鈥淯ncle Tom鈥� and several characters associated with him. At the beginning of the book, Tom is one of the more fortunate slaves working for the very kind Shelby family who treat their slaves as human beings. Unfortunately, the head of the family, Arthur Shelby, is considerably less kind than his wife and son and one day decides to sell Tom, Eliza (a pretty slave girl), and Eliza鈥檚 young son Harry, to a slave trader. Eliza makes a run for it, taking her son with her, but Tom鈥攊ncredibly pious man that he is鈥攕tays put and meekly goes with the slave trader. During his voyage with the slave trader down the Mississippi River Tom lucks out again and meets Augustine St. Clare, a very kind man traveling with his angelic little daughter Eva. Augustine buys Tom and takes him to his home in New Orleans where Tom lives happily for a couple of years, and is promised his freedom by Augustine. Before the emancipation could happen, however, Tom鈥檚 luck runs out. Augustine dies and Tom is sold again鈥攊n an auction鈥攂y the nasty Mrs. Marie St. Clare. This time, he is bought by the irredeemably evil plantation owner named Simon Legree, leading to the most harrowing part of the book.
Besides being fascinating Uncle Tom's Cabin is also harrowing, disturbing and heartbreaking. This is one of the most historically significant slave narratives ever, it played a major part in helping to bring about the abolition of slavery in the US. It reminds me of the TV adaptation of and the more recent film adaptation of . I have not read either of these books, though I found the TV series and the film very moving. The only other slave narrative I have read is Octavia Butler鈥檚 beautiful, harrowing and heartbreaking novel . What these narratives have in common is the shocking portrayal of an era when people are so unenlightened as to treat fellow human beings as mere tools; buying and selling them like animals, splitting up families, in order to sell the individual members as separate items. The slave traders put a price tag on the slaves on the basis of their physical attributes. One thought kept occurring to me, 鈥渨hy was this ever OK?鈥�. OK, in the sense of "sanctioned by law", with certificates of "ownership" and everything, so the people can legitimately own what they could not possibly own; human beings are "unownable".
The book is not wall to wall 鈥渕an鈥檚 inhumanity to man鈥� however, Harriet Beecher Stowe put in some lighter moments to balance the grimness of the story. Still, the lighter moments are overwhelmed by the tragic lives of the enslaved characters. Besides being a slave narrative Uncle Tom's Cabin also clearly belongs to the Christian fiction genre. Any atheist reading this book to find out more about slavery in the nineteenth century America is likely to be put off by the Christian piety which underpins just about every page of the book. There are even scenes which verges on the miraculous or divine intervention. The book鈥檚 religiosity doesn鈥檛 bother me at all but I think it is fair warning for potential readers looking for a more secular narrative. The characters are very vividly drawn but the eponymous Tom, and the spooky little girl, Eva St. Clare, are too Christ-like to be entirely believable.
In any case Uncle Tom's Cabin, as a novel, is very readable, there is not a dull moment and Harriet Beecher Stowe knew what buttons to push to connect with the readers on an emotional level. However, the novel is literally 鈥減reachy鈥� in many places鈥攏ot to mention sentimental and melodramatic. If you are OK with all that then the book is highly recommended.
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Notes:
鈥� Audiobook credit: , brilliantly read by Mr. John Greenman. Thank you!
鈥� is, in some ways, a slave narrative, and as it is a Mark Twain book you don't have to worry about overwhelming piety!
鈥� For some reason, the name 鈥淯ncle Tom鈥� has become a derogatory term to suggest 鈥渁 subservient fool who bows down to the white man鈥�. This is not how Tom is portrayed in the novel at all, he meekly accepts abuses aimed at himself, but draws the line at being ordered to abuse other slaves. (Thanks for the tip Kevin!)
鈥� There is a pro-slavery genre called written by authors in response to Harriet Beecher Stowe's book. According to Wikipedia there are more than twenty books of this kind, they generally portray slavery as beneficial for the African Americans who will come a cropper without the white man's supervision. I don't know what these authors are smoking but I don't want any!
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Quotes:
鈥淭hese critters ain't like white folks, you know; they gets over things, only manage right. Now, they say," said Haley, assuming a candid and confidential air, "that this kind o' trade is hardening to the feelings; but I never found it so. Fact is, I never could do things up the way some fellers manage the business. I've seen 'em as would pull a woman's child out of her arms, and set him up to sell, and she screechin' like mad all the time;鈥攙ery bad policy鈥攄amages the article鈥攎akes 'em quite unfit for service sometimes.鈥�
鈥淗e was possessed of a handsome person and pleasing manners, and was a general favorite in the factory. Nevertheless, as this young man was in the eye of the law not a man, but a thing, all these superior qualifications were subject to the control of a vulgar, narrow-minded, tyrannical master. 鈥�
鈥淭hat is to say, the Lord made 'em men, and it's a hard squeeze gettin 'em down into beasts鈥�
鈥淔or, sir, he was a man,鈥攁nd you are but another man. And, woman, though dressed in silk and jewels, you are but a woman, and, in life's great straits and mighty griefs, ye feel but one sorrow!鈥�
鈥淚 defy anybody on earth to read our slave-code, as it stands in our law-books, and make anything else of it. Talk of the abuses of slavery! Humbug! The thing itself is the essence of all abuse! And the only reason why the land don't sink under it, like Sodom and Gomorrah, is because it is used in a way infinitely better than it is. For pity's sake, for shame's sake, because we are men born of women, and not savage beasts, many of us do not, and dare not,鈥攚e would scorn to use the full power which our savage laws put into our hands. And he who goes the furthest, and does the worst, only uses within limits the power that the law gives him.鈥�
鈥淲hy, because my brother Quashy is ignorant and weak, and I am intelligent and strong,鈥攂ecause I know how, and can do it,鈥攖herefore, I may steal all he has, keep it, and give him only such and so much as suits my fancy. Whatever is too hard, too dirty, too disagreeable, for me, I may set Quashy to doing. Because I don't like work, Quashy shall work. Because the sun burns me, Quashy shall stay in the sun. Quashy shall earn the money, and I will spend it. Quashy shall lie down in every puddle, that I may walk over dry-shod. Quashy shall do my will, and not his, all the days of his mortal life, and have such chance of getting to heaven, at last, as I find convenient.鈥�
Slave narratives are morbidly fascinating to me, it amazes me that slavery was ever 鈥渁 thing鈥� in civilized countries.
Uncle Tom's Cabin tells the story of a faithful, kind and extremely pious 鈥淯ncle Tom鈥� and several characters associated with him. At the beginning of the book, Tom is one of the more fortunate slaves working for the very kind Shelby family who treat their slaves as human beings. Unfortunately, the head of the family, Arthur Shelby, is considerably less kind than his wife and son and one day decides to sell Tom, Eliza (a pretty slave girl), and Eliza鈥檚 young son Harry, to a slave trader. Eliza makes a run for it, taking her son with her, but Tom鈥攊ncredibly pious man that he is鈥攕tays put and meekly goes with the slave trader. During his voyage with the slave trader down the Mississippi River Tom lucks out again and meets Augustine St. Clare, a very kind man traveling with his angelic little daughter Eva. Augustine buys Tom and takes him to his home in New Orleans where Tom lives happily for a couple of years, and is promised his freedom by Augustine. Before the emancipation could happen, however, Tom鈥檚 luck runs out. Augustine dies and Tom is sold again鈥攊n an auction鈥攂y the nasty Mrs. Marie St. Clare. This time, he is bought by the irredeemably evil plantation owner named Simon Legree, leading to the most harrowing part of the book.
Besides being fascinating Uncle Tom's Cabin is also harrowing, disturbing and heartbreaking. This is one of the most historically significant slave narratives ever, it played a major part in helping to bring about the abolition of slavery in the US. It reminds me of the TV adaptation of and the more recent film adaptation of . I have not read either of these books, though I found the TV series and the film very moving. The only other slave narrative I have read is Octavia Butler鈥檚 beautiful, harrowing and heartbreaking novel . What these narratives have in common is the shocking portrayal of an era when people are so unenlightened as to treat fellow human beings as mere tools; buying and selling them like animals, splitting up families, in order to sell the individual members as separate items. The slave traders put a price tag on the slaves on the basis of their physical attributes. One thought kept occurring to me, 鈥渨hy was this ever OK?鈥�. OK, in the sense of "sanctioned by law", with certificates of "ownership" and everything, so the people can legitimately own what they could not possibly own; human beings are "unownable".
The book is not wall to wall 鈥渕an鈥檚 inhumanity to man鈥� however, Harriet Beecher Stowe put in some lighter moments to balance the grimness of the story. Still, the lighter moments are overwhelmed by the tragic lives of the enslaved characters. Besides being a slave narrative Uncle Tom's Cabin also clearly belongs to the Christian fiction genre. Any atheist reading this book to find out more about slavery in the nineteenth century America is likely to be put off by the Christian piety which underpins just about every page of the book. There are even scenes which verges on the miraculous or divine intervention. The book鈥檚 religiosity doesn鈥檛 bother me at all but I think it is fair warning for potential readers looking for a more secular narrative. The characters are very vividly drawn but the eponymous Tom, and the spooky little girl, Eva St. Clare, are too Christ-like to be entirely believable.
In any case Uncle Tom's Cabin, as a novel, is very readable, there is not a dull moment and Harriet Beecher Stowe knew what buttons to push to connect with the readers on an emotional level. However, the novel is literally 鈥減reachy鈥� in many places鈥攏ot to mention sentimental and melodramatic. If you are OK with all that then the book is highly recommended.
______________________
Notes:
鈥� Audiobook credit: , brilliantly read by Mr. John Greenman. Thank you!
鈥� is, in some ways, a slave narrative, and as it is a Mark Twain book you don't have to worry about overwhelming piety!
鈥� For some reason, the name 鈥淯ncle Tom鈥� has become a derogatory term to suggest 鈥渁 subservient fool who bows down to the white man鈥�. This is not how Tom is portrayed in the novel at all, he meekly accepts abuses aimed at himself, but draws the line at being ordered to abuse other slaves. (Thanks for the tip Kevin!)
鈥� There is a pro-slavery genre called written by authors in response to Harriet Beecher Stowe's book. According to Wikipedia there are more than twenty books of this kind, they generally portray slavery as beneficial for the African Americans who will come a cropper without the white man's supervision. I don't know what these authors are smoking but I don't want any!
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Quotes:
鈥淭hese critters ain't like white folks, you know; they gets over things, only manage right. Now, they say," said Haley, assuming a candid and confidential air, "that this kind o' trade is hardening to the feelings; but I never found it so. Fact is, I never could do things up the way some fellers manage the business. I've seen 'em as would pull a woman's child out of her arms, and set him up to sell, and she screechin' like mad all the time;鈥攙ery bad policy鈥攄amages the article鈥攎akes 'em quite unfit for service sometimes.鈥�
鈥淗e was possessed of a handsome person and pleasing manners, and was a general favorite in the factory. Nevertheless, as this young man was in the eye of the law not a man, but a thing, all these superior qualifications were subject to the control of a vulgar, narrow-minded, tyrannical master. 鈥�
鈥淭hat is to say, the Lord made 'em men, and it's a hard squeeze gettin 'em down into beasts鈥�
鈥淔or, sir, he was a man,鈥攁nd you are but another man. And, woman, though dressed in silk and jewels, you are but a woman, and, in life's great straits and mighty griefs, ye feel but one sorrow!鈥�
鈥淚 defy anybody on earth to read our slave-code, as it stands in our law-books, and make anything else of it. Talk of the abuses of slavery! Humbug! The thing itself is the essence of all abuse! And the only reason why the land don't sink under it, like Sodom and Gomorrah, is because it is used in a way infinitely better than it is. For pity's sake, for shame's sake, because we are men born of women, and not savage beasts, many of us do not, and dare not,鈥攚e would scorn to use the full power which our savage laws put into our hands. And he who goes the furthest, and does the worst, only uses within limits the power that the law gives him.鈥�
鈥淲hy, because my brother Quashy is ignorant and weak, and I am intelligent and strong,鈥攂ecause I know how, and can do it,鈥攖herefore, I may steal all he has, keep it, and give him only such and so much as suits my fancy. Whatever is too hard, too dirty, too disagreeable, for me, I may set Quashy to doing. Because I don't like work, Quashy shall work. Because the sun burns me, Quashy shall stay in the sun. Quashy shall earn the money, and I will spend it. Quashy shall lie down in every puddle, that I may walk over dry-shod. Quashy shall do my will, and not his, all the days of his mortal life, and have such chance of getting to heaven, at last, as I find convenient.鈥�
March 29, 2009
Wow. An important book, surely, historically, and I found the forward more interesting than most as it argued about the book's place in American Literature. (Though, sadly, like most academic forwards, rife with spoilers. Lady! I'm reading this for the first time, don't tell me who dies and who gets married and who goes to Africa!)
Stowe's strength is in her more merry passages, particularly when she can put her bible down for five seconds and turn a wry, Twain-like eye on popular culture. Sadly, these passages are too few and far between, drowning under gallons of preaching and an over-sentimentalized series of accounts that rob the actions of their innate horror. She did her homework, and the accounts of atrocities of slavery jive with those I've read in Frederick Douglas' autobiography, but I would recommend Douglas' work over hers twenty-to-one. It is more compassionate, more rooted in reality, and lest damn preachy.
Also, there are a few very very offensive passages that just made me gasp and want to look away...
Stowe's strength is in her more merry passages, particularly when she can put her bible down for five seconds and turn a wry, Twain-like eye on popular culture. Sadly, these passages are too few and far between, drowning under gallons of preaching and an over-sentimentalized series of accounts that rob the actions of their innate horror. She did her homework, and the accounts of atrocities of slavery jive with those I've read in Frederick Douglas' autobiography, but I would recommend Douglas' work over hers twenty-to-one. It is more compassionate, more rooted in reality, and lest damn preachy.
Also, there are a few very very offensive passages that just made me gasp and want to look away...
August 13, 2023
A powerful, important message in a weak novel!
As a classic, Harriet Beecher Stowe's UNCLE TOM'S CABIN deserves its status as a powerful indictment against the history of black slavery in America. With courage and insight unprecedented in her time, Stowe uses moving family tales of a number of black and white families to pillory the violence and hatred to which blacks were subjected prior to the American Civil War and thrills the reader with convincing philosophical debates that reveal the astonishing hypocrisy and weak-willed rationalizations that the white population used to justify their actions.
Stowe's frank, terrifyingly banal and utterly unabashed presentation of slavery, slave trading, white attitudes and the laws of the ante-bellum US southern states will turn most modern readers red and shame-faced with embarrassment that these events actually form a part of their country's heritage.
But, as a novel, UNCLE TOM'S CABIN is unsatisfying, overly long and poorly edited. Stowe's insistence on writing her dialogue in a faux black English dialect is unconvincing at best and is actually often irritating and distracting as it becomes more and more difficult to decipher what her characters are actually trying to say.
Her insistence on preaching and using Christian church teachings and the bible as the primary basis for criticizing prejudice, racism and slavery frankly grated my sensibilities. There is plenty enough wrong with slavery and its history in America from a purely humanist point of view without resorting to what would be categorized as "bible thumping" today. (That said, I will admit that it may have been an appropriate approach to convince what she saw as her potential audience at the time).
The white characters she uses to support and convey her message of understanding, compassion and her political agenda of abolition are so sugary sweet as to be positively cloying. A scene in which her primary white character, Evangeline St Clare, gathers her family and her family's slaves around her death bed in order to distribute locks of her hair to one and all was so melodramatic and pointless as to approach the level of bizarre.
I would never say to any potential future reader that I enjoyed UNCLE TOM'S CABIN. I didn't! In fact, at times, it was even a struggle to finish it. But the message, the history, the overwhelming importance and the power of the arguments conveyed by the story are more than enough reason to read it anyway. If enough people take the message to heart then perhaps the world has a possibility of avoiding repetition of events like the Holocaust, the Rwandan genocide, the rape of Nanking or the slaughter of the Muslims in Bosnia by the Serbs.
Paul Weiss
As a classic, Harriet Beecher Stowe's UNCLE TOM'S CABIN deserves its status as a powerful indictment against the history of black slavery in America. With courage and insight unprecedented in her time, Stowe uses moving family tales of a number of black and white families to pillory the violence and hatred to which blacks were subjected prior to the American Civil War and thrills the reader with convincing philosophical debates that reveal the astonishing hypocrisy and weak-willed rationalizations that the white population used to justify their actions.
Stowe's frank, terrifyingly banal and utterly unabashed presentation of slavery, slave trading, white attitudes and the laws of the ante-bellum US southern states will turn most modern readers red and shame-faced with embarrassment that these events actually form a part of their country's heritage.
But, as a novel, UNCLE TOM'S CABIN is unsatisfying, overly long and poorly edited. Stowe's insistence on writing her dialogue in a faux black English dialect is unconvincing at best and is actually often irritating and distracting as it becomes more and more difficult to decipher what her characters are actually trying to say.
Her insistence on preaching and using Christian church teachings and the bible as the primary basis for criticizing prejudice, racism and slavery frankly grated my sensibilities. There is plenty enough wrong with slavery and its history in America from a purely humanist point of view without resorting to what would be categorized as "bible thumping" today. (That said, I will admit that it may have been an appropriate approach to convince what she saw as her potential audience at the time).
The white characters she uses to support and convey her message of understanding, compassion and her political agenda of abolition are so sugary sweet as to be positively cloying. A scene in which her primary white character, Evangeline St Clare, gathers her family and her family's slaves around her death bed in order to distribute locks of her hair to one and all was so melodramatic and pointless as to approach the level of bizarre.
I would never say to any potential future reader that I enjoyed UNCLE TOM'S CABIN. I didn't! In fact, at times, it was even a struggle to finish it. But the message, the history, the overwhelming importance and the power of the arguments conveyed by the story are more than enough reason to read it anyway. If enough people take the message to heart then perhaps the world has a possibility of avoiding repetition of events like the Holocaust, the Rwandan genocide, the rape of Nanking or the slaughter of the Muslims in Bosnia by the Serbs.
Paul Weiss
October 10, 2015
This book launched the Civil War, and at what cost? In her novel Uncle Tom's Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe writes about the plight of enslaved individuals, and she relies on religion to advance her argument that slavery should not exist. The characters often appear as nothing more than archetypes. Stowe's writing comes across as propaganda more times than not. And yet the story of Uncle Tom's Cabin itself possesses an undeniable power, a strength fueled by outright sentimentalism and moralist rhetoric.
I wrote about ten pages of analysis of this book for my Social Protest Literature class. During that time I could not help but compare it to the Dove Real Beauty campaign. Dove promotes body positivity, and at the same it over-emphasizes the role of beauty and discounts a lot of diversity. Stowe opposes slavery, and she also includes sentiments of romantic racism and overt Christian bias in her book. If you read Uncle Tom's Cabin, I would recommend approaching it from a critical lens; it did a lot to progress racial equality, while still enforcing a slew of problematic ideas we still see in today's discussions of race.
Overall, an important book in our nation's history and one I would encourage people to read if they possess an interest in the institution of slavery or social protest literature in general. Not the most eloquent book ever written, but revolution does not always require a lot of eloquence, as evidenced by this story and many others.
I wrote about ten pages of analysis of this book for my Social Protest Literature class. During that time I could not help but compare it to the Dove Real Beauty campaign. Dove promotes body positivity, and at the same it over-emphasizes the role of beauty and discounts a lot of diversity. Stowe opposes slavery, and she also includes sentiments of romantic racism and overt Christian bias in her book. If you read Uncle Tom's Cabin, I would recommend approaching it from a critical lens; it did a lot to progress racial equality, while still enforcing a slew of problematic ideas we still see in today's discussions of race.
Overall, an important book in our nation's history and one I would encourage people to read if they possess an interest in the institution of slavery or social protest literature in general. Not the most eloquent book ever written, but revolution does not always require a lot of eloquence, as evidenced by this story and many others.
March 4, 2024
Uncle Tom's Cabin was the world's best selling novel in the 19th century, and played a key part in the American abolitionist movement and preparing the rhetorical ground for the American Civil War. It fell out of favor in the second half of the 20th century for both stylistic and political reasons, though it continued to have its critical champions (Edmond Wilson, no less).
Several issues make reading this historic novel problematic for the modern reader. It is written in the sentimental style that was popular in the mid 19th century, but is cloying to the modern ear. It contains an excess of heavy handed religiosity on nearly every page (one critic called it Sunday-school fiction). Finally, it's attitude toward people of color, while sympathetic, is paternalistic and patronizing to our modern perspective.
Yet this is still an important work, and worth reading, if not for entertainment, to recognize the skillful way Stowe manipulated hearts and minds through her writing. She knew her audience, knew what would move them, what would convince them, what would anger them and spur them to action. She used this novel not only to win converts to abolitionism, but to argue that breaking laws and possibly even using violence to fight the evil of slavery was morally acceptable. Reading Uncle Tom's Cabin is a peek into the soul of mid 19th century America.
There are passages in this book that are actually quite enjoyable, but the work is too long and they are too few to read it for mere entertainment. Read it to gain an understanding of the people it was written for, the times they lived in, and the skillful way in which Harriet Beecher Stowe created the most successful propaganda novel of all time to move them.
Several issues make reading this historic novel problematic for the modern reader. It is written in the sentimental style that was popular in the mid 19th century, but is cloying to the modern ear. It contains an excess of heavy handed religiosity on nearly every page (one critic called it Sunday-school fiction). Finally, it's attitude toward people of color, while sympathetic, is paternalistic and patronizing to our modern perspective.
Yet this is still an important work, and worth reading, if not for entertainment, to recognize the skillful way Stowe manipulated hearts and minds through her writing. She knew her audience, knew what would move them, what would convince them, what would anger them and spur them to action. She used this novel not only to win converts to abolitionism, but to argue that breaking laws and possibly even using violence to fight the evil of slavery was morally acceptable. Reading Uncle Tom's Cabin is a peek into the soul of mid 19th century America.
There are passages in this book that are actually quite enjoyable, but the work is too long and they are too few to read it for mere entertainment. Read it to gain an understanding of the people it was written for, the times they lived in, and the skillful way in which Harriet Beecher Stowe created the most successful propaganda novel of all time to move them.
February 15, 2024
I'm not going to write an actual review of this book I have read more than once but a long time ago, first in a college American Literature class and then in teaching it myself. Can a novel change the world, or at least the way we see the world? Well, here is an example of book written from the perspective of a mother having her babies ripped from her arms and sold away, a common occurrence during American slavery times. This novel about mothers brutally separated from their children was read by (white) women who were themselves mothers who were shown that this horrific act--among so many other horrific acts--was actually happening, and I understand that it was one of the things that began to turn the tide against slavery in this country, as these women began to act in solidarity with mothers they had maybe never thought about as human.
December 6, 2021
This was my second reading of this marvelous book. It could have received the Pulitzer Prize. I can understand why it helped bring an end to slavery. I suppose not every American knew what was going on in the South until this book was published. Common sense tells you that slavery is not humane. Often I heard that they were treated like animals, as if animals should have been abused.
December 7, 2019
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September 11, 2020
This is certainly a timely book that looks back on slavery in the 1850鈥檚.
This is the kind of book that makes me shake my head at humanity. The way 鈥淣egroes鈥� are thought of and treated is repulsive. So often I was brought to either tears or anger as I read.
Yes, for sure, the author depicts the good鈥漺hite鈥� people as well as the bad. That again seems to be our society today.
Why they were thought of as less than human, I will never understand. Even the kindly Mrs. Shelby says of them...鈥漷o do my duty to these poor, simple, dependent creatures.鈥�
The author was an abolitionist , so this book is an anti slavery book. I can just imagine how it was received in 1852. She was also very pro Christianity. There are many references to religion and Christianity throughout the book. There were a couple of instances where I felt this bogged down the story, but for the most part, it did seem integral to the purpose of the book.
An important read that I feel should be read by many more people, especially with what is going on presently.
This is the kind of book that makes me shake my head at humanity. The way 鈥淣egroes鈥� are thought of and treated is repulsive. So often I was brought to either tears or anger as I read.
Yes, for sure, the author depicts the good鈥漺hite鈥� people as well as the bad. That again seems to be our society today.
Why they were thought of as less than human, I will never understand. Even the kindly Mrs. Shelby says of them...鈥漷o do my duty to these poor, simple, dependent creatures.鈥�
The author was an abolitionist , so this book is an anti slavery book. I can just imagine how it was received in 1852. She was also very pro Christianity. There are many references to religion and Christianity throughout the book. There were a couple of instances where I felt this bogged down the story, but for the most part, it did seem integral to the purpose of the book.
An important read that I feel should be read by many more people, especially with what is going on presently.
March 27, 2020
賲賳 乇賵丕卅毓 丕賱兀丿亘 丕賱丕賲乇賷賰賷 賵丕賱鬲賷 賳丕賱鬲 卮賴乇丞 毓丕賱賲賷丞. 賵賰丕賳鬲 爻亘亘賸丕 賮賷 鬲丨乇賷賰 賲卮丕毓乇 丕賱賳丕爻 賵鬲丨乇賷乇 丕賱毓亘賷丿 亘賱 賵禺丕囟賵丕 丨乇亘丕 卮乇爻賴 賲賳 丕噩賱 匕賱賰.
賱賲 鬲賲毓賳 丕賱賰丕鬲亘丞 賰孬乇丕 賮賷 賵氐賮 丕賱賲毓丕賳丕鬲 賵丕賱毓匕丕亘 丕賱匕賷 賰丕賳賵丕 賷鬲毓乇囟賵賳 賱賴 賵賱賰賳 鬲乇賰鬲 賱賲禺賷賱丞 丕賱賯丕乇賷亍 丕賳 賷爻乇丨 亘禺賷丕賱賴 賰賷賮賲丕 卮丕亍. 賲毓 兀賳賷 丕乇賶 丕賳 亘賷毓 丕賱丕賳爻丕賳 賵賴賵 賷賯賮 賱丕 賷爻鬲胤賷毓 賮毓賱 丕賻賷 卮賷亍 賲賳 丕賰亘乇 丕賱賲丌爻賷 賮賷 鬲丕乇賷禺 丕賱亘卮乇.
賱賲 鬲賲毓賳 丕賱賰丕鬲亘丞 賰孬乇丕 賮賷 賵氐賮 丕賱賲毓丕賳丕鬲 賵丕賱毓匕丕亘 丕賱匕賷 賰丕賳賵丕 賷鬲毓乇囟賵賳 賱賴 賵賱賰賳 鬲乇賰鬲 賱賲禺賷賱丞 丕賱賯丕乇賷亍 丕賳 賷爻乇丨 亘禺賷丕賱賴 賰賷賮賲丕 卮丕亍. 賲毓 兀賳賷 丕乇賶 丕賳 亘賷毓 丕賱丕賳爻丕賳 賵賴賵 賷賯賮 賱丕 賷爻鬲胤賷毓 賮毓賱 丕賻賷 卮賷亍 賲賳 丕賰亘乇 丕賱賲丌爻賷 賮賷 鬲丕乇賷禺 丕賱亘卮乇.
September 27, 2017
賰賵禺 丕賱毓賲 鬲賵賲貙 賴賷 乇賵丕賷丞 鬲賳丕賵賱鬲 丕賱丨賷丕丞 丕賱賯丕爻賷丞 丕賱鬲賷 毓丕卮賴丕 丕賱兀賲乇賷賰賷賵賳 丕賱爻賵丿 賯亘賷賱 丕賱丨乇亘 丕賱兀賴賱賷丞. 賵賳賯賱鬲 氐賵乇丞 賱賲丕 賰丕賳賵丕 賷毓丕賳賵賳賴 兀賷丕賲 丕賱丕爻鬲乇賯丕賯...
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