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Stowe, Harriet Beecher (1811-1896) Uncle Tom's cabin; or, life among the lowly.

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC01361 Author/Creator: Stowe, Harriet Beecher (1811-1896) Place Written: Boston, Massachusetts Type: Book Date: 1852 Pagination: 2 v. ; 19.5 x 12.5 cm. Order a Copy

First edition, first printing (with Hobart & Robbins on the copyright pages). Rebound, with original cloth binding bound into back. Boston, John P. Jewett & company; Cleveland, Ohio, Jewett, Proctor & Worthington. Two volume set housed together in a book box.

Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896), the daughter of preacher Lyman Beecher and sister of Henry Ward Beecher, was the author of "Uncle Tom’s Cabin," which she wrote in reaction to the Fugitive Slave Act. It was serially published between June 5, 1851 and April 1852 in the "National Era," an abolitionist newspaper. "Uncle Tom's Cabin" was issued in book form in late 1852.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896

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