Published in 1853. Topics include: Quakers, New York Courier & Enquirer, What is slavery?, Souther v. The Commonwealth, Protective statutes, Protective acts of South Carolina & Louisiana, Protective acts with regard to Food & Raiment, Labor, etc., Tom v. Legree, Execution of justice, State v. Eliza Rowans, Moderate correction & accidental death, State v. Castleman, State v. Legree, Triumph of justice over law, Roman law of slavery vs. American slavery,...

The moving abolitionist novel that fueled the fire of the human rights debate in 1852 and melodramatically condemned the institution of slavery through such powerfully realized characters as Tom, Eliza, Topsy, Eva, and Simon Legree.

"La capanna dello zio Tom" è un romanzo anti-schiavista scritto dall’americana Harriet Beecher Stowe. Pubblicato nel 1852, in seguito ad un atto legislativo promulgato nel 1850 che decretava un dovere la denuncia degli schiavi fuggiti e la restituzione ai proprietari, il romanzo ebbe un profondo effetto sugli atteggiamenti nei confronti degli afro-americani e la schiavitù negli Stati Uniti e rese più acuto il conflitto che condusse alla guerra...

Traces the process and influences behind the writing of Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin, which was published when the nation was torn over the issue of slavery and headed toward Civil War.