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02Chapter 027:47
03Chapter 0312:18
04Chapter 0428:07
05Chapter 0520:38
06Chapter 0621:04
07Chapter 0729:46
08Chapter 0836:40
09Chapter 0939:22
10Chapter 1023:26
11Chapter 1133:05
12Chapter 1239:38
13Chapter 1322:00
14Chapter 1425:02
15Chapter 1539:57
16Chapter 1645:05
17Chapter 1740:50
18Chapter 1839:07
19Chapter 1949:17
20Chapter 2035:11
21Chapter 2111:24
22Chapter 2217:00
23Chapter 2317:03
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25Chapter 2511:08
26Chapter 2630:56
27Chapter 2718:18
28Chapter 2834:52
29Chapter 2918:03
30Chapter 3023:41
31Chapter 3114:12
32Chapter 3219:48
33Chapter 3316:49
34Chapter 3426:33
35Chapter 3514:42
36Chapter 3615:47
37Chapter 3715:23
38Chapter 3825:05
39Chapter 3922:30
40Chapter 4016:59
41Chapter 4115:42
42Chapter 4214:56
43Chapter 4320:04
44Chapter 449:03
45Chapter 4524:24

Notes
Running Time: 18 hours 4 minutes
Read by: John Greenman    
Book Coordinator: John Greenman    
Meta Coordinator: David Barnes

Artwork
Cover: "Uncle Tom and Little Eva"  (1866) painting by Edwin Longsden Long (1829 - 1891).
DVD Inset: Photo of Harriet Beecher Stowe circa 1852.
DVD Insert background image: Pictures and Stories from Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Boston: John P. Jewett & Co., c 1853.

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“So, this is the little lady who started this great war.” Apocryphal or not, the statement is ascribed to Abraham Lincoln on meeting the “little lady,” Harriet Beecher Stowe, the woman who wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin, the most popular and best-selling novel of the 19th Century. There are those moments in history when an artist gives voice to the deep-seated issues and powerful forces underlying the times. When Stowe’s novel was published In 1852, the issue of slavery that had been sleeping like a coiled serpent round the best intentions of the new republic. The North and the South stood at loggerheads and, despite the many efforts put forth in Congress to reach some compromise, the institution of slavery remained an abstract trigger that impelled extreme reactions on both sides. Uncle Tom’s Cabin made the abstract concept very real for millions of readers. As readers delved into the lives of Uncle Tom, Eliza and Eva, who were sold and moved from slave owner to slave owner, their well-being wholly dependent on the character and intentions of their master (personified by the cruel Simon Legree), the grave sin of slavery ceased to be an abstract concept. The characters, the crime, the suffering and the call to action became more than a story for millions. The novel sparked a cause fueled by emotions and sympathy then based in the readers’ vicarious experience. In the minds of millions, slaves ceased to be property and became people, fully human, created and loved by God. They became a people to be freed, and slavery became an institution to be abhorred and banned. Uncle Tom’s Cabin might not have started the Civil War, but it certainly gave many a reason and the courage to fight.  (Summary by Michael Hogan)


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EAN - DVD case 0683422134142
EAN - CD jacket 0687700170921
Media MP3 CD
Package DVD Case
Author Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811- 1894)
Year 1852
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Read by John Greenman
Length 18 hours 4 minutes
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