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Book/Printed Material The key to Uncle Tom's cabin : presenting the original facts and documents upon which the story is founded, together with corroborative statements verifying the truth of the work

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Title

  • The key to Uncle Tom's cabin : presenting the original facts and documents upon which the story is founded, together with corroborative statements verifying the truth of the work

Names

  • Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896, author
  • Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896. signer
  • John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress)

Created / Published

  • London : Clarke, Beeton and Co., 148 Fleet Street, and Thomas Bosworth, Regent Street, [1853]

Headings

  • -  Stowe, Harriet Beecher,--1811-1896.--Uncle Tom's cabin
  • -  Uncle Tom--(Fictitious character)
  • -  Enslaved persons--United States--Social conditions

Notes

  • -  Date of publication from the Bibliography of American literature.
  • -  Includes Stowe's preface, no appendix; printed slip advertising Rev. W. Goodell's American slave code, tipped in at front.
  • -  In original publisher's binding: green net-grain cloth with border and publisher's monogram stamped in blind on boards; title, author, and publisher stamped in gilt on spine. Decorated endpapers with publisher's advertisements.
  • -  Blanck, J. Bibliography of American literature, 19357 (issue 1, binding A)
  • -  LAC brd 2019-04-26 no edits (2 cards)

Medium

  • viii, 504 pages ; 20 cm

Call Number/Physical Location

  • E449 .S8961
  • E449 .S8961 Copy 2 Inscribed by the author: Visited Edinburgh, Ap. 19, 1853, H.B. Stowe. Laid in: clipping from the New York Times, Monday May 22, 1933, describing an 1856 "slave sale tag" worn by an actor portraying Uncle Tom, donated to the production by John D. Batchelder.

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 24013793

Online Format

  • pdf
  • image

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Chicago citation style:

Stowe, Harriet Beecher, Author, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and John Davis Batchelder Collection. The key to Uncle Tom's cabin: presenting the original facts and documents upon which the story is founded, together with corroborative statements verifying the truth of the work. [London: Clarke, Beeton and Co., 148 Fleet Street, and Thomas Bosworth, Regent Street, 1853] Pdf. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/24013793/.

APA citation style:

Stowe, H. B., Stowe, H. B. & John Davis Batchelder Collection. (1853) The key to Uncle Tom's cabin: presenting the original facts and documents upon which the story is founded, together with corroborative statements verifying the truth of the work. [London: Clarke, Beeton and Co., 148 Fleet Street, and Thomas Bosworth, Regent Street] [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/24013793/.

MLA citation style:

Stowe, Harriet Beecher, Author, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and John Davis Batchelder Collection. The key to Uncle Tom's cabin: presenting the original facts and documents upon which the story is founded, together with corroborative statements verifying the truth of the work. [London: Clarke, Beeton and Co., 148 Fleet Street, and Thomas Bosworth, Regent Street, 1853] Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/24013793/>.