A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin
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A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin is Harriet Beecher Stowe’s nonfiction companion volume to her novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin, compiling documents and testimonies to defend the book’s portrayal of slavery as factually accurate.
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| instanceOf |
companion volume
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nonfiction book → |
| addresses |
criticisms of Uncle Tom's Cabin
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| aimsTo |
prove that incidents in Uncle Tom's Cabin were based on real events
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| author |
Harriet Beecher Stowe
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| basedOn |
Uncle Tom's Cabin
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| contains |
case studies of enslaved people
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court records → legal documents → letters → newspaper reports → personal testimonies → |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
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| genre |
abolitionist literature
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slave narrative documentation → |
| hasAuthorGender |
female
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| hasForm |
book
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| hasMainTheme |
Christian ethics and slavery
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family separation under slavery → legal framework of slavery → moral condemnation of slavery → violence against enslaved people → |
| historicalContext |
pre–American Civil War era
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| influencedBy |
Uncle Tom's Cabin
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| language |
English
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| literaryPeriod |
19th-century American literature
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| mediaType |
print
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| movement |
American abolitionist movement
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| nonfictionType |
documentary
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| notableFor |
apologetic defense of a novel's realism
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extensive documentation of slavery cases → |
| placeOfPublication |
Boston
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| publicationDecade |
1850s
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| publicationYear |
1853
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| publisher |
Jewett, Proctor & Worthington
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| purpose |
defend factual accuracy of Uncle Tom's Cabin
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document realities of American slavery → |
| relatedWork |
Uncle Tom's Cabin
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| relation |
companion to the novel Uncle Tom's Cabin
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| structure |
chapters organized by themes and cases
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| subject |
African American slavery
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abolitionism → fugitive slave laws → plantation life → religion and slavery → slavery in the United States → |
| targetAudience |
Northern American readers
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critics of Uncle Tom's Cabin → |
| timePeriodDescribed |
antebellum United States
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Harriet Beecher Stowe
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Harriet Beecher Stowe
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