Uncle Tom's Cabin

The first American novel to become an international best-seller, Stowe''s book charts the paths from slavery to freedom of fugitives who escape the chains of American chattel slavery, and of a martyr who transcends all earthly ties.This edition firmly locates Uncle Tom''s Cabin within the context of African-American writing, the issues of race and the role of women. Its introduction discusses African responses to Stowe''s novel over the last century and a half and i