Onkel Tom's Hütte: Oder Die Geschichte Eines Christlichen Sklaven. Band 1 (von 3).
1862
Onkel Tom's Hütte: Oder Die Geschichte Eines Christlichen Sklaven. Band 1 (von 3).
1862
Translated by Du Bois L.
This is the novel that Abraham Lincoln allegedly said started the Civil War. Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin in 1852, and it became the best-selling novel of the 19th century, selling 300,000 copies in America alone in its first year. The story follows Uncle Tom, a devoutly Christian enslaved man, as he is sold away from his kind master and subjected to increasingly brutal owners. Meanwhile, Eliza, a mother enslaved on the same plantation, makes her desperate escape across the ice-choled Ohio River with her young son. The novel interweaves multiple storylines to show the varied cruelties of American slavery, the tearing apart of families, and the moral bankruptcy of a system that treats human beings as property. It is a work of immense historical power and considerable controversy. While it galvanized Northern sentiment against slavery and remains a landmark of abolitionist literature, later generations have criticized its portrayal of enslaved people and the stereotypes that calcified in adaptations. The book asks readers to consider how literature can fight injustice while also perpetuating the very prejudices it seeks to erase.
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“The longest way must have its close - the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning.””
— Harriet Beecher Stowe
“Soon after the completion of his college course, his whole nature was kindled into one intense and passionate effervescence of romantic passion. His hour came,”
— Harriet Beecher Stowe
“...the heart has no tears to give,--it drops only blood, bleeding itself away in silence.””
— Harriet Beecher Stowe
“Of course, in a novel, people’s hearts break, and they die, and that is the end of it; and in a story this is very convenient. But in real life we do not die when all that makes life bright dies to us. There is a most busy and important round of eating, drinking, dressing, walking, visiting, buying, selling, talking, reading, and all that makes up what is commonly called living, yet to be gone through…””
— Harriet Beecher Stowe
“There are in this world blessed souls, whose sorrows all spring up into joys for others; whose earthly hopes, laid in the grave with many tears, are the seed from which spring healing flowers and balm for the desolate and the distressed.””
— Harriet Beecher Stowe
“Any mind that is capable of a real sorrow is capable of good.””
— Harriet Beecher Stowe
“Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good not to do harm.””
— Harriet Beecher Stowe
“For how imperiously, how coolly, in disregard of all one’s feelings, does the hard, cold, uninteresting course of daily realities move on! Still we must eat, and drink, and sleep, and wake again, - still bargain, buy, sell, ask and answer questions, - pursue, in short, a thousand shadows, though all interest in them be over; the cold, mechanical habit of living remaining, after all vital interest in it has fled.””
— Harriet Beecher Stowe
“Treat 'em like dogs, and you'll have dogs' works and dogs' actions. Treat 'em like men, and you'll have men's works.””
— Harriet Beecher Stowe
