NF Uncle Tom's Cabin

[A. Roy]

I read "Uncle Tom's Cabin" for the first time ever only about a year ago. Well worth reading, I thought. For me, one takeaway was that Stowe was trying to show how pernicious the system of American racial enslavement was, even to those who thought they could be benevolent slaveholders. Obviously there are wicked enslavers portrayed in the book, such as Simon Legree, but even those with good intentions are foiled by the legal and financial entanglements of the chattel slavery system. That aspect made the book thought-provoking for me.
ARB

 

[ErnieMac]

I read Uncle Tom's Cabin a few years ago. My copy is sitting on the small bookshelf beside me as a type this. I don't even remember it even being an option in my high school courses. I completely agree with what @A. Roy said above.

 

[donna]

I read when about 10 years old. It along with some other books were required reading. I still have copy of book my parents gave me. It is 1929 edition. Has some wonderful illustrations. I think originally my Dad's book.

Just saw this thread. Thanks for posting.

 

[Pollaco]

I haven't ever read the book, I'm not much on fiction. I'm guessing or supposing it was along the lines of Upton Sinclair's novel "The Jungle" (which I also havent read) , about the hazards in the meat cutting industry.It brought attention to a "condition" that would have gone largely unnoticed.

 

[Valen]

Here's a great book about "Cabin", and the influence it had on US, and World, history. I highly recommend it:

 

[Jantzen64]

My wife's uncle gave her an original combined Vols 1 and 2, published in 1853. Whenever I hold it, it it feels like a real connection to those times, in the same way a period weapon does. I wonder who read it and how it impacted their choices . . . .

 

[archieclement]

This was one of the classics that was required reading when I was in the 8 grade.

I had never heard of it being required reading in midwest.

Are you in state or region Stowe was from?

I'm in the same county Mark Twain grew up in and based Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn on, but think they were common requirements outside the locale.

 

[d.perry]

I had never heard of it being required reading in midwest.

Are you in state or region Stowe was from?

I'm in the same county Mark Twain grew up in and based Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn on, but think they were common requirements outside the locale.

Massachusetts. About 40 minutes north of Mark Twain's Hartford Connecticut home.

 

[archieclement]

Massachusetts. About 40 minutes north of Mark Twain's Hartford Connecticut home.

So pretty close to same region as stormfield and Hartford are only 70 mi apart.

 

[Valen]

My father went to High School in western NYS in the late 1950s. It was assigned to his class. I went to high school in the early 1980s, same state, the novel was on our reading list. My nephew is 32. Lives in a St. Louis suburb. His read it when he was in high school, too.

 

[Old Soldier]

I haven't ever read the book, I'm not much on fiction. I'm guessing or supposing it was along the lines of Upton Sinclair's novel "The Jungle" (which I also havent read) , about the hazards in the meat cutting industry.It brought attention to a "condition" that would have gone largely unnoticed.

You don't know what you are missing. Buy a copy and find out!

 

[Library Lady]

We just got a copy of the Annotated Uncle Tom's Cabin in at the used book and record store where I volunteer. I hope it's still there Friday (payday) because I want to buy it!

The Annotated Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Variously beloved, denounced and dismissed over its 150-plus year history, Stowe's classic 1852 novel has been nothing if not pr...

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[Tennessee Union Gal]

I haven't ever read the book, I'm not much on fiction. I'm guessing or supposing it was along the lines of Upton Sinclair's novel "The Jungle" (which I also havent read) , about the hazards in the meat cutting industry.It brought attention to a "condition" that would have gone largely unnoticed.

That's an interesting comparison and I'd agree. They are not at all similar in style.