02021cam a2200301 4500 605759218 TxAuBib 20111017120000.0 250210s1966||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u (OCoLC)493864951 TxAuBib Stowe, Harriet Beecher, Auteur. Uncle Tom's Cabin / by Harriet Beecher Stowe ; with an afterword by John William Ward. New York. Toronto : New American library, 1966. 1 v. (VI-495 p.) ; 18 cm. Signet classic ; ; 322 signet classic, A ; 322 Bibliogr. p. 495. Uncle Tom's Cabin opens on the Shelby plantation in Kentucky as two enslaved people, Tom and 4-year old Harry, are sold to pay Shelby family debts. Developing two plot lines, the story focuses on Tom, a strong, religious man living with his wife and 3 young children, and Eliza, Harry's mother. When the novel begins, Eliza's husband George Harris, unaware of Harry's danger, has already escaped, planning to later purchase his family's freedom. To protect her son, Eliza runs away, making a dramatic escape over the frozen Ohio River with Harry in her arms. Eventually the Harris family is reunited and journeys north to Canada. om protects his family by choosing not to run away so the others may stay together. Sold south, he meets Topsy, a young, black girl whose mischievous behavior hides her pain; Eva, the angelic, young, white girl whose death moved Victorians to tears; charming, elegant but passive St. Clare; and finally, cruel, violent Simon Legree. Tom's deep faith gives him an inner strength that frustrates his enemies as he moves toward his fate in Louisiana. 20150611. Slavery -- Fiction. Abolition -- Fiction. Classics. Ward, John William, Prâeface. Signet classic ; ; 322. A signet classic ; 322.