Excerpt from Uncle Tom's Cabin First published in 1852 A novel about the evils of slavery "'Lucy,' said the trader, 'your child's gone; you may as well know it first as last. You see, I know'd you...

Uncle Tom's Cabin or, Life among the Lowly by Harriet Beecher Stowe According to many, Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin did not just reflect the author's era. They contend that the novel actually affected the history of that era. When President...

Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin as a protest against the Compromise of 1850, specifically its Fugitive Slave Law, which required Northerners to abet the South in its retrieval of runaway slaves. Serialized in The National Era...

A transferred name in The Middle Man, by David Chandler. A man says to a woman: ‘Don’t ever try to see my wife again.’ We are told that the woman to whom this was addressed ‘pretended to cower’. She then replies:...

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