UNCLE TOM'S CABIN by HARRIET BEECHER STOWE/CIVIL WAR/SLAVERY/VOL. 1, RARE 1852

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UNCLE TOM'S CABIN by HARRIET BEECHER STOWE/CIVIL WAR/SLAVERY/VOL. 1, RARE 1852 UNCLE TOM'S CABIN; OR, LIFE AMONG THE LOWLY. BY HARRIET BEECHER STOWE. VOL. I. Thirtieth thousand. Boston : John P. Jewett & Company; Cleveland, Ohio : Jewett, Proctor & Worthington, 1852. Rare.A solid early edition of this great classic, printed in the same year as the original first printing. This is Volume I only of the 2 volumes that were published. It is complete, with all texts and illustrated plates, with the original endpapers and with the original covers. The spine has been rebacked with plain brown cloth, so it is solidly bound, if not pretty. Published more than 160 years ago, such an early printing of this classic book usually sells for hundreds of dollars.From the Preface: "THE scenes of this story, as its title indicates, lie among a race hitherto ignored by the associations of polite and refined society; an exotic race, whose ancestors, born beneath a tropic sun, brought with them, and perpetuated to their descendants, a character so essentially unlike the hard and dominant Anglo-Saxon race, as for many yeas to have won from it only misunderstanding and contempt. But, another and better day is dawning; every influence of literature, of poetry and of art, in our times, is becoming more and more in unison with the great master chord of Christianity, "good will to man." The poet, the painter, and the artist, now seek out and embellish the common and gentler humanities of life, and, under the allurements of fiction, breathe a humanizing and subduing influence, favorable to the development of the great principles of Christian brotherhood. The hand of benevolence is everywhere stretched out, searching into abuses, righting wrongs, alleviating distresses, and bringing to the knowledge and sympathies of the world the lowly, the oppressed, and the forgotten. In this general movement, unhappy African at last is remembered; Africa, who began the race of civilization and human progress in the dim, gray dawn of early time, but who, for centuries, has lain bound and bleeding at the foot of civilized and Christianized humanity, imploring compassion in vain. But the heart of the dominant race, who have been her conquerors, her hard masters, has at length been turned towards her in mercy; and it has been seen how far nobler it is in nations to protect the feeble than to oppress them. Thanks be to God, the world has at last outlived the slave-trade! The object of these sketches is to awaken sympathy and feeling for the African race, as they exist among us; to show their wrongs and sorrows, under a system to necessarily cruel and unjust as to breathe a humanizing and subduing influence, favorable to the development of the great principles of Christian brotherhood. the hand of benevolence is everywhere stretched out, searching into abuses, righting wrongs, alleviating distresses, and bringing to the knowledge and sympathies of the world the lowly, the oppressed, and the forgotten. In this general movement, unhappy African at last is remembered; Africa, who began the race of civilization and human progress in the dim, gray dawn of early time, but who, for centuries, has lain bound and bleeding at the foot of civilized and Christianized humanity, imploring compassion in vain..." Contents include: In which the Reader is introduced to a Man of Humanity; The Mother; The Husband and Father; An Evening in Uncle Tom's Cabin; Showing the Feelings of Living Property on changing Owners; Discovery; the Mother's Struggle; Eliza's Escape; In which it appears that a Senator is but a Man; The Property is carried off; In which Property gets into an Improper State of Mind; Select Incident of LAwful Trade; The Quaker Settlement; Evangeline; Of Tom's new Master, and Various other Matters; Toms' Mistress and her Opinions; The Freeman's Defence; Miss Opohelia's Experiences and Opinions;According to Wikipedia: "Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly,[1][2] is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe.... read more

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