Includes bibliographical references (pages 443-453) and index.
Acknowledgments; Preface; Book I . THE GHOSTLY CRY: UNCLE TOM'S CABIN; Part I; Chapter 01. The Question of Equality; Chapter 02. The Real Alternatives; Chapter 03. Standards of Humanity; Chapter 04. Stowe's Own "Introductions"; Chapter 05. A Little Wine and Brandy: The Narrative Begins; Chapter 06. Patriarchy, Matriarchy, and Other Myths of Slavery; Chapter 07. The Birth of Uncle Tom; Chapter 08. The Kinesis of Slavery and the Science of Natures; Chapter 09. "What Country Have I?"; Chapter 10. We Have No City; Chapter 11. The Light of the Present; Chapter 12. Myth Making and the End.
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Generally critics and interpreters of Uncle Tom have constructed a one-way view of Uncle Tom, albeit offering a few kind words for Uncle Tom along the way. Recovering Uncle Tom requires re-telling his story. This book delivers on that mission, while accomplishing something no other work on Harriet Beecher Stowe has fully attempted: an in-depth statement of her political thought. Heroeuvre, in partnership with that of her husband Calvin, constitutes a demonstration of the permanent necessity of moraland prudential judgment in human affairs. Moreover, it identifies the political conditions that.
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