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A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin / Presenting the original facts and documents upon which the story is founded. Together with corroborative statements verifying the truth of the work.

Chapter 1: A KEY TO UNCLE TOM’S CABIN; PRESENTING THE ORIGINAL FACTS AND DOCUMENTS UPON WHICH THE STORY IS FOUNDED. TOGETHER WITH Corroborative Statements VERIFYING THE TRUTH OF THE WORK.
By Harriet Beecher Stowe
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The author compiles affidavits, legal records, newspaper reports, and personal testimonies to demonstrate the factual basis for episodes portrayed in her fictional account, chapter by chapter. Prefatory remarks frame the work as a moral and religious inquiry into the institution under scrutiny, with analysis of legal precedents, denominational responses, and specific incidents that illuminate the practices and agents of slaveholding and slave-trading. The narrative alternates documentary exposition with commentary linking fragments of evidence to scenes in the fiction, and acknowledges gaps in coverage while urging sober, Christian examination of slavery's realities.

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Title: A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin

Author: Harriet Beecher Stowe

Release date: May 30, 2017 [eBook #54812]
Most recently updated: October 23, 2024

Language: English

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A KEY
TO
UNCLE TOM’S CABIN;
PRESENTING THE ORIGINAL
FACTS AND DOCUMENTS
UPON WHICH THE STORY IS FOUNDED.
TOGETHER WITH
Corroborative Statements
VERIFYING
THE TRUTH OF THE WORK.

BY HARRIET BEECHER STOWE,
AUTHOR OF “UNCLE TOM’S CABIN.”
BOSTON:
PUBLISHED BY JOHN P. JEWETT & CO.
CLEVELAND, OHIO:
JEWETT, PROCTOR & WORTHINGTON.
LONDON: LOW AND COMPANY.
1853.
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1853, by
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE,
In the Clerk’s Office of the District Court for the District of Massachusetts.
STEREOTYPED BY
HOBART & ROBBINS,
NEW ENGLAND TYPE AND STEREOTYPE FOUNDERY,
BOSTON.
Damrell & Moore, Printers, 16 Devonshire St., Boston.