![[3728937] 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. Harriet Beecher Stowe, 1811–1896.](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3728937.jpg?width=768&height=1000&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1706601305)
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.
“The writer has aimed, as far as possible, to say what is true, and only that”
Book-length exposition of the sources and facts underlying the fictional narrative of Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe’s enormously influential anti-slavery novel first published in 1851–1852.
“The success of Uncle Tom’s Cabin made Stowe an international celebrity and a focus of antislavery sentiment. In 1853 she published A Key to Uncle Tom’s Cabin, an antislavery polemic written to answer critics who complained that her novel had exaggerated the brutalities of slavery.” (ANB)
Description: 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.
Boston: John P. Jewett & Co. Cleveland, Ohio: Jewett, Proctor & Worthington, 1853. iv, [5]–262, [2 (ads)]pp. First edition, first issue. Tall 8vo. Publisher’s brown, ribbed cloth with blind decorations on covers and gilt spine titling; yellow endpapers. Faint rubbing at head and tail of spine and at extremities; area of offsetting to title-page, foxing. Overall, very good in tight and clean binding with bright gilt lettering.
[3728937]BAL 19359 (first issue with “Hobart & Robbins” imprint on copyright page).
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