A 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.

Title: A 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.
Author: Harriet Beecher Stowe
Publisher: John P. Jewett & Co., Boston
Published: 1853
Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Edition: First Edition
Number of Pages: 262
Catalogs: Abolition, Slavery, Literature
Description: Original pale gray-green blind-embossed cloth binding with gilt lettering on spine, greatly faded. Cover is scuffed and dirty, with greater wear at corners and edges of spine. Minor historical dampstain has left a discoloration on the corner of the rear board, and on some pages, but isn't strongly noticeable. Pressed leaves on flyleaf, attached with glued paper. Foxing and pressed leaves throughout. Pages are set in two columns. After the publication of Uncle Tom's Cabin, Southerners accused Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896) of misrepresenting slavery. In order to show that she had neither lied about slavery nor exaggerated the plight of enslaved people, she compiled A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin. The reaction of Stowe's contemporaries to A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin was very similar to the reaction to Uncle Tom's Cabin, with both very positive and very negative reviews. The responses of abolitionists and Northerners in general were among the positive, lauding the documentation of the evils of slavery and the confirmation of the truth of Uncle Tom's Cabin. Hardcover, acceptable condition due to minor historical dampstain, first edition. 262 pages, tall octavo.