Harriet Beecher Stowe
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"Uncle Tom’s Cabin brought the evils of slavery to the consciences and hearts of the American people by its moving portrayal of slave experience. Harriet Beecher Stowe shows us in scenes of great dramatic power the human effects of a system in which slaves were property: the break up of families, the struggles for freedom, and the horrors of plantation labour. She brings into fiction the different voices of the emerging American nation; the...
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Setä Tuomon tupa on tarina keski-ikäisestä orjasta Tuomosta, jonka tämän isäntä, kentuckylainen maanviljelijä, aikoo myydä maksaakseen velkansa. Näin Tuomo joutuu eroon vaimostaan ja lapsestaan, kun hänet myydään orjamarkkinoilla ja lähetetään pois. Tuomo matkaa jokilautalla pitkin suurta Mississippi-jokea ja päätyy dramaattisen matkansa päätteeksi pahantahtoisen maanomistajan Simon Legreen palvelukseen. Tuomolle matkasta muodostuu...
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La cabaña del tío Tom (Uncle Tom's Cabin) es una novela de la escritora estadounidense Harriet Beecher Stowe. Se publicó por primera vez, de forma serializada, en el periódico abolicionista The National Era, entre el 5 de junio de 1851 y el 1 de abril de 1852. Luego, salió como libro en 1852.
La obra tiene la esclavitud como tema central. Narra principalmente la historia del tío Tom, esclavo que trabaja hace años en la propiedad de los Shelby,...
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"Uncle Tom's Cabin," published in 1852, is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. The story follows the lives of several enslaved African Americans, primarily Uncle Tom, as they navigate the harsh realities of slavery in the United States. Stowe wrote the novel as a response to the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 and intended to portray the immorality of slavery. The book had a profound impact on American public opinion and is...
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This Christmas tale set in Colonial New England was originally published in the 1895 collection A Budget of Christmas Tales by Charles Dickens and Others. The short story takes place in a fictionalized version of Litchfield, Connecticut, the town where Stowe grew up, which is also the setting of her novel Poganuc People: Their Loves and Lives. This version of Christmas in Poganuc was recorded as part of Dreamscape's Classic Christmas Stories: A Collection...
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Uncle Tom's Cabin opens with a Kentucky farmer named Arthur Shelby facing the loss of his farm because of debts. Even though he and his wife, Emily Shelby, believe that they have a benevolent relationship with their slaves, Shelby decides to raise the needed funds by selling two of them—Uncle Tom, a middle-aged man with a wife and children, and Harry, the son of Emily Shelby's maid Eliza—to a slave trader. Emily Shelby hates the...