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Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.3 - AR Pts: 32
Language
English
Description
Written by American author and dedicated abolitionist Harriet Beecher Stowe, "Uncle Toms Cabin" is a poignant novel which shows the harsh reality of a slaves life in the 1800s. Uncle Tom, an African-American slave who believes in the power of Christian faith. The book would be a major contributor to the Civil War because its compelling portrayal of slaves as fellow human beings left little room for compromise: if slaves were indeed...
Author
Publisher
Crabtree
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
This book describes the life and achievements of Harriet Beecher Stowe, who actively aided fugitive slaves and, with the publication of her anti-slavery novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin," focused the nation's consciousness on the inhumanity of slavery.
Author
Series
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.3 - AR Pts: 32
Language
English
Description
This edition includes:The 1852 first book edition, accompanied by a preface, note on the text, and explanatory annotations.Twenty-two illustrations and historical documents on slavery and abolitionism are included, as are seventeen critical reviews spanning more than 160 years.
Author
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Examines the life of the nineteenth-century author famous for the novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin," which denounced slavery and intensified the disagreement between the North and South.
Publisher
WGBH Educational Foundation
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"Radicals. Agitators. Troublemakers. Liberators. Called many names, the abolitionists tore the nation apart in order to create a more perfect union. Men and women, black and white, Northerners and Southerners, poor and wealthy, these passionate anti-slavery activists fought body and soul in the most important civil rights crusade in American history"--Container.