Uncle Tom's Cabin
- ISBN-10
- 1598530860
- ISBN-13
- 9781598530865
- Series
- Uncle Tom's Cabin
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 529
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2010
- Author
- Harriet Beecher Stowe
Description
Often credited with indirectly causing the outbreak of the Civil War, "Uncle Tom's Cabin" is a portrait of human dignity in the most inhumane circumstances and an indictment of racist misperceptions in what Langston Hughes called "a moral battle cry."
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