Uncle Tom's Cabin (illustrated)

Harriet Beecher Stowe was appalled by slavery, and she took one of the few
options open to nineteenth-century women who wanted to affect public opinion:
she wrote a novel, a huge, enthralling narrative that claimed the heart, soul,
and politics of pre-Civil War Americans. An overtly moralistic work of
unabashed propaganda, it is an attempt to make whites–North and South–see
slaves as mothers, fathers, and children–as human beings. Her basic question
remains penetrating even today: "Is man ever a creature to be trusted with
wholly irresponsible power?"

Includes unique illustrations.