Uncle Tom's Cabin

Uncle Tom's Cabin brought the searing realities of slavery into the nineteenth-century American home. The novel offers readers a portrait of a nation on the verge of disunion and a subtle examination of the relationship between race and nationalism that has always been at the heart of the American experience. This edition offers a wide array of appendices that clarify the novel's participation in antebellum debates about domesticity, colonization, abolitionism, and the law, and includes a section on dramatic adaptations of the novel.