Uncle Tom, Topsy, Sambo, Simon Legree, little Eva: their names are American bywords, and all of them are characters in Harriet Beecher Stowe's remarkable novel of the pre-Civil War South. Uncle Tom's Cabin was revolutionary in 1852 for its passionate indictment of slavery and for its presentation of Tom, "a man of humanity," as the first black hero in American fiction. Labeled racist and condescending by some contemporary critics, it remains a shocking,...

Tells the stories of a saint-like slave, a religious woman's courtship in eighteenth-century Newport, R.I., and life in a small Massachusetts town.

This book traces the process and influences behind the writing of Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin.

The women of the Wayferer Inn investigate the thefts of a framed "Eliza" print from the Inn and a first-edition copy of Uncle Tom's Cabin from the local Underground Railroad Museum. Meanwhile, Brad Grimes, LuAnn's friend-turned-boyfriend, seems like he's really getting serious about their relationship.