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"Do the
worst you can, my troubles'll be over soon;
but, if ye
don't repent, yours won't never end."
The following books will introduce you to Uncle Tom, who said
these words in Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin.
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- Stowe, Harriet Beecher. Uncle
Tom's Cabin (Elizabeth Ammons, Ed.). New York:
Norton, 1994.
- This is the authoritative Norton Critical Edition
which includes background and commentary by many
critics, as well as the original illustrations
for this 1852 novel.
- Stowe, Harriet Beecher. Key
to Uncle Tom's Cabin. Ayer, 1969.
- Stowe answered her critics in 1853 by documenting
the horrible conditions of slavery described in
her novel.
- Wilson, Edmund. Patriotic
Gore: Studies in the Literature of the American Civil War.
Norton, 1994.
- Wilson's chapter on Stowe is a classic.
- Gossett, Thomas F. Uncle
Tom's Cabin and American Culture. Dallas: Southern
Methodist University Press, 1985.
- This book gives a comprehensive history of the
reception of Uncle Tom's Cabin in
America and abroad and its evolution in various
media.
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