Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Harriet Beecher Stowe, 1852

Harriet Beecher Stowe’s anti-slavery novel of Uncle Tom, an enslaved Christian sold away from his family in Kentucky and sent down the river, and of Eliza, who escapes north with her small son across the ice of the Ohio River.

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Sublime is the dominion of the mind over the body, that, for a time, can make flesh and nerve impregnable, and string the sinews like steel, so that the weak become so mighty.
Volume I, Chapter VIIIn context
- Courage
Whipping and abuse are like laudanum; you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline.
Volume II, Chapter XXIn context
- Slavery
Any mind that is capable of a real sorrow is capable of good.
Volume II, Chapter XXVIIIIn context
- Emotion
- Good & Evil
It is impossible for a person who does no good not to do harm.
Volume II, Chapter XXVIIIIn context
- Good & Evil
The number of those men who know how to use wholly irresponsible power humanely and generously is small. Everybody knows this, and the slave knows it best of all
Volume II, Chapter XXIXIn context
- Power
- Slavery
By what strange law of mind is it that an idea long overlooked, and trodden under foot as a useless stone, suddenly sparkles out in new light, as a discovered diamond?
Volume II, Chapter XXXVIIIIn context
- Ideas
No one is so thoroughly superstitious as the godless man.
Volume II, Chapter XXXIXIn context
- Religion
The longest way must have its close,⁠—the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning. An eternal, inexorable lapse of moments is ever hurrying the day of the evil to an eternal night, and the night of the just to an eternal day.
Volume II, Chapter XLIn context
- Hope
- Justice
There is one thing that every individual can do,⁠—they can see to it that they feel right.
Volume II, Chapter XLVIn context
- Morality

Volume I

Chapter IIn Which the Reader Is Introduced to a Man of Humanity
Chapter IIThe Mother
Chapter IIIThe Husband and Father
Chapter IVAn Evening in Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Chapter VShowing the Feelings of Living Property on Changing Owners
Chapter VIDiscovery
Chapter VIIThe Mother’s Struggle
Chapter VIIIEliza’s Escape
Chapter IXIn Which It Appears That a Senator Is But a Man
Chapter XThe Property Is Carried Off
Chapter XIIn Which Property Gets into an Improper State of Mind
Chapter XIISelect Incident of Lawful Trade
Chapter XIIIThe Quaker Settlement
Chapter XIVEvangeline
Chapter XVOf Tom’s New Master, and Various Other Matters
Chapter XVITom’s Mistress and Her Opinions
Chapter XVIIThe Freeman’s Defence
Chapter XVIIIMiss Ophelia’s Experiences and Opinions

Volume II

Chapter XIXMiss Ophelia’s Experiences and Opinions Continued
Chapter XXTopsy
Chapter XXIKentuck
Chapter XXII“The Grass Withereth—the Flower Fadeth”
Chapter XXIIIHenrique
Chapter XXIVForeshadowings
Chapter XXVThe Little Evangelist
Chapter XXVIDeath
Chapter XXVII“This Is the Last of Earth”
Chapter XXVIIIReunion
Chapter XXIXThe Unprotected
Chapter XXXThe Slave Warehouse
Chapter XXXIThe Middle Passage
Chapter XXXIIDark Places
Chapter XXXIIICassy
Chapter XXXIVThe Quadroon’s Story
Chapter XXXVThe Tokens
Chapter XXXVIEmmeline and Cassy
Chapter XXXVIILiberty
Chapter XXXVIIIThe Victory
Chapter XXXIXThe Stratagem
Chapter XLThe Martyr
Chapter XLIThe Young Master
Chapter XLIIAn Authentic Ghost Story
Chapter XLIIIResults
Chapter XLIVThe Liberator
Chapter XLVConcluding Remarks

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Contents

Volume I

Volume II