Uncle Tom's Cabin
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A classic, a must read.
I've been meaning to read this book for years.
I 1st became aware of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" in
Rodgers & Hammersteins' "The King & I" as a play within the musical.
Over the last few years I've read several writer's who have recommend it's reading. Some of the writer's include, Mark Twain, Abraham Lincoln, activist and documentarian Michael Moore and several other current writers who's names escape me at this moment.
"Uncle Tom's Cabin" an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe has been on the forbidden books lists since it's publication in 1852. On a vacation to Cambridge, Md. last fall, I saw an exhibit in the visitors center, Harriet Tubman exhibit, indicating that a man was jailed for reading the book.
"Published in 1852 , "Uncle Tom’s Cabin" became an international best seller, in popularity as the second best-selling book of the 19th century behind the Bible. It sold 300,000 copies in the United States in its first year of publication and more than a million in England in that same year. Two million copies had sold worldwide by 1857. To date It has been translated into at least 70 different languages." "Some critics dismissed it as abolitionist propaganda, while others hailed it as a masterpiece."
The "real" Uncle Tom's Cabin is located in Rockville, Montgomery County, Md. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/story-josiah-henson-real-inspiration-uncle-toms-cabin-180969094/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/1997/12/10/uncle-toms-montgomery-county-cabin/301d8a82-48a2-4110-9a85-66a775c68718/
I've been meaning to read this book for years.
I 1st became aware of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" in
Rodgers & Hammersteins' "The King & I" as a play within the musical.
Over the last few years I've read several writer's who have recommend it's reading. Some of the writer's include, Mark Twain, Abraham Lincoln, activist and documentarian Michael Moore and several other current writers who's names escape me at this moment.
"Uncle Tom's Cabin" an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe has been on the forbidden books lists since it's publication in 1852. On a vacation to Cambridge, Md. last fall, I saw an exhibit in the visitors center, Harriet Tubman exhibit, indicating that a man was jailed for reading the book.
"Published in 1852 , "Uncle Tom’s Cabin" became an international best seller, in popularity as the second best-selling book of the 19th century behind the Bible. It sold 300,000 copies in the United States in its first year of publication and more than a million in England in that same year. Two million copies had sold worldwide by 1857. To date It has been translated into at least 70 different languages." "Some critics dismissed it as abolitionist propaganda, while others hailed it as a masterpiece."
The "real" Uncle Tom's Cabin is located in Rockville, Montgomery County, Md. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/story-josiah-henson-real-inspiration-uncle-toms-cabin-180969094/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/1997/12/10/uncle-toms-montgomery-county-cabin/301d8a82-48a2-4110-9a85-66a775c68718/
"Published in 1852,Uncle Tom's Cabin had a great influence on the abolitionist movement. Prosperous plantation owners banned the book due to its anti-slavery themes, and objection to the book’s “undermining religious ideals” and presenting a model of equality."
"Immediately upon publication, Uncle Tom’s Cabin outraged people in the South. Southern novelist William Gilmore Simms declared the work “utterly false”, while others called it criminal or slanderous.
A bookseller in Mobile, Alabama was forced to leave town for selling the novel; and threatening letters were sent to Stowe herself. On one horrific occasion she received a package containing a slave’s severed ear. " the above info is from Banned Books Awareness
https://bbark.deepforestproductions.com/column/2011/03/06/banned-book-awareness-uncle-toms-cabin-harriet-beecher-stowe/
By coincidence I was reading this book at the same time as George Floyd's horrific public murder and during the protests and demonstrations that followed and are still occurring as I write this journal entry. Human rights must be upheld in the US and all over this world. Thoughts and prayers are not enough.
" Scenes of blood and cruelty are shocking to our ear and heart. What man has nerve to do, man has not nerve to hear. What brother-man and brother-Christian must suffer, cannot be told us, even in our secret chamber, it so harrows up
the soul! And yet, oh my country! these things are done under the shadow of thy laws! O, Christ! thy church sees them, almost in silence! " Harriet Beecher Stowe
" Scenes of blood and cruelty are shocking to our ear and heart. What man has nerve to do, man has not nerve to hear. What brother-man and brother-Christian must suffer, cannot be told us, even in our secret chamber, it so harrows up
the soul! And yet, oh my country! these things are done under the shadow of thy laws! O, Christ! thy church sees them, almost in silence! " Harriet Beecher Stowe
