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.
Boston: John P. Jewett and Company, 1853. First American edition, second issue. Publisher's green cloth blindstamped, gilt spine title. [i.v], [5]-262, [2, adverts] pp. 10" x 6.75" Wear to extremities with minor loss top and lower spine; endpapers and prelims foxed, blindstamp and owner's inscription front free endpaper, overall a very good copy. Item #151356
IN DEFENSE OF UNCLE TOM
Published the year after her bestselling novel rocked the United States, A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin was Harriet Beecher Stowe's rebuttal to the South's skepticism and rage. Southerners claimed Stowe wildly exaggerated or falsified the plight of slavery in Uncle Tom's Cabin, so she came back swinging, meeting their protests with court records and personal narratives that exposed the brutality she had novelized. The Key served as a rallying point for abolitionists in the North as they drew on Stowe's primary source material and moral arguments to bolster the movement.
Presented here is a first American edition, second issue of this landmark abolitionist work.
[BAL 19359].
Price: $350.00