Pros: Wonderful history and a powerful compelling message! Cons: Cryptic dialogue, bible thumping and cloying sweet heroines!
As a classic, Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin" deserves its status as a powerful indictment against the history of black slavery in America. With courage and insight unprecedented in her time, Stowe uses moving family tales of a number of ...
Pros: Satire, political message Cons: Weak writing at times, non-PC language
Uncle Tom’s Cabin stirred up enough controversy in the 1850s to set off a Civil War that had more casualties than all the other armed conflicts in which the US had been involved, combined, until World War II. Uncle Tom’s Cabin has...
Pros: An insight about what slaves may have felt. Cons: A little seeped in sentimentality.
I read 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' in celebration of Black History Month. Although the author was not a black American, I decided the subject was appropriate for that month.
Harriet Beecher Stowe was very obviously an abolitionist. She didn't see any...
Pros: Wonderful historical classic. Cons: Over dramatic characters.
I read Uncle Tom’s Cabin about a year ago, and only because it was a historical classic. I wasn’t expecting a great story. I had never really examined the practical results of slavery before; I had only read about the mass effects on a nation. I knew...
Pros: good insight into slavery Cons: long, boring, hard to understand
Uncle Toms Cabin is one of the most boring books that I have ever had to read. The key word being had. In my American Literature class we had to read Uncle Toms Cabin and I hated every minute of it. The teacher was so bored that he admitted that he...
Many people who have read Uncle Tom's Cabin say that the book has put them to sleep, or wasn't entertaining enough. Nevertheless, it is an excellent book that people who has an interest in politics, history, or just a good book to read should read this...
Uncle Tom's Cabin was a very boring book. I was so confused by page 70 I wanted to stop readin. The book use language like tis and a-restin I just thought the whole book was hard to understand.
The main character is a slave named Uncle Tom who is...
Harriet Beecher Stowes novel influenced an entire country at war with her heart wrenching novel that has long since become a classic. Focusing upon th...More at Christianbook.com
Uncle Tom's Cabin was a sensation upon its publication in 1852. In its first year it sold 300,000 copies, and has since been translated into more than...More at HotBookSale
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