HARRIET BEECHER STOWE, página 2 de 4

"-¿Qué falta os hace el niño?-¿Qué falta me hace? Son artículos de fantasía que dan brillo a los depósitos. Los ricos suelen pagarlos muy bien. Es un género que deja mucha ganancia; y este travieso chiquillo, que tan bien canta y representa, me proporcionaria un gran negocio."Esta novela, escrita en mitad del siglo XIX, es una de las novelas mas leidas en el mundo entero, tanto por su valor literario como humano.La emotiva historia de la vida de Tom y los personajes que le rodean transcurre en Kentucky antes de la abolicion de la esclavitud.Tom es un fiel esclavo que asi es como ha servido a su dueño hasta que este se ve obligado, por su precaria situacion financiera, a venderlo al cruel Simon Lergee, junto con Henry, apenas un niño que esta destinado a correr el mismo destino que Tom de no ser porque su madre, la mestiza Eliza, logra salvarlo de su destino seguro y huir con el hasta llegar a Canada.La suerte de Tom no sera tan favorable, en manos de Lergee sufre una cantidad de penurias que conmueven al lector, y hasta habra de enfrentarse al momento de tratar de ser convertido el mismo en un negrero en una plantacion de algodon.Tom, de una moral y una etica intachables, se niega a servir a su proposito con la consecuente represalia y consecuencias El consuelo tanto en Tom como en los otros personajes secundarios con los que se cruza y entabla una estrecha relacion humana es la religion, a traves de la que encuentran union entre ellos, comunidad, consuelo y esperanza que les hacer mas ligera la carga de sus crueles destinos."La cabaña del tio Tom" ha sido llevada al cine en varias ocasiones, la primera de ellas ya en 1927 en una pelicula de cine mudo, y posteriormente en versiones mas modernas en los años 60 y 80.

Translator: Hj. Sandelin

"The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone"Poems such as "The Other World""Mary at the Cross" and "The Secret" are spread across the pages of this collection by Harriet Beecher Stowe, the author of "Uncle Toms Cabin". Religious and spiritual, the poems reflect on how to live a godly life, discuss the afterlife, and the consequences of loss and tragedy. In much of her poetry, Stowe considers the relationship between Protestantism and Catholicism, a relatively radical position for her day.

"The night is far spent; the day is at hand.""They shall see the son of man coming in a cloud, with power and great glory."This is a short booklet by Harriet Beecher Stowe about the Coming of Jesus Christ that even the humblest reader will be captured by. Stowe, herself, was very religious from early childhood and throughout her life. She has written many books with religious stories, studies and poems, though her most well known work is Uncle Toms Cabin.

Uncle Toms Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly, is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. Published in 1852, the novel "helped lay the groundwork for the Civil War", according to Will Kaufman. Uncle Toms Cabin was the best-selling novel of the 19th century and the second best-selling book of that century, following the Bible. It is credited with helping fuel the abolitionist cause in the 1850s. In the first year after it was published, 300,000 copies of the book were sold in the United States; one million copies in Great Britain. In 1855, three years after it was published, it was called "the most popular novel of our day." The impact attributed to the book is great, reinforced by a story that when Abraham Lincoln met Stowe at the start of the Civil War, Lincoln declared, "So this is the little lady who started this great war." The quote is apocryphal; it did not appear in print until 1896, and it has been argued that "The long-term durability of Lincolns greeting as an anecdote in literary studies and Stowe scholarship can perhaps be explained in part by the desire among many contemporary intellectuals ... to affirm the role of literature as an agent of social change."

Editor: A. H. Fogowitz / Translator: Aatto S.

Editor: Maikki Friberg

Translator: L. du Bois

The book that awakened the conscience of so many men and women to the iniquity of slavery and played such a significant role in the liberation of slaves in the United States would be considered, ironically, from the 1960s onwards (by leaders of the civil rights and African American emancipation movements), as a racist work perpetuating the submission of black people.The reason lies mainly in its protagonist, Uncle Tom. "Uncle Tom" is, in the USA, an insult one can hurl at a black person, since the character is not a rebellious leader, a Spartacus, as the African American movement would have wished, but a martyr, docile and pious, who accepts all punishments as penance and forgives all his enemies.However, Tom is a man of extreme nobility, without a trace of servitude, with physical courage and supreme self-sacrifice, who recognizes the ignominy of slavery and does not accept it in any way, but rejects violence as a form of resistance and is incapable of lying even to the vilest of mennot out of fear, but out of self-respect.Tom is a saint, whereas the African Americans of the twentieth century were looking for a hero. It is evident that this passivity would not receive political approval from activists, just as Harriet Beecher Stowes depictions of black people, with all their benevolence and angelic qualities, could not avoid being denounced as paternalistic. But few books can boast of having had such a significant influence on the lives of so many millions of people and on the history of the United States itself.

Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp by Harriet Beecher Stowe is a powerful and uncompromising novel that confronts the moral, social, and political realities of slavery in preCivil War America. Published in 1856 as a follow-up to her groundbreaking work Uncle Toms Cabin, this stirring narrative deepens Stowes exploration of injustice while presenting a more complex and militant examination of resistance, conscience, and reform.Set in the shadowy wilderness of the Great Dismal Swampa vast, haunting landscape straddling Virginia and North Carolinathe novel weaves together the lives of enslaved individuals, plantation owners, reformers, and fugitives. At its center is Dred, a fierce and prophetic figure who lives hidden in the swamp. Inspired in part by real-life maroon communities and the revolutionary spirit of resistance, Dred becomes a symbol of defiance against oppression and a voice of righteous anger in a world built on cruelty and exploitation.Through a richly layered narrative, Stowe contrasts differing attitudes toward slavery within Southern society. Some characters attempt to justify or soften the institution, while others recognize its inherent brutality and moral corruption. The novel explores not only the physical suffering imposed by bondage but also the spiritual and psychological toll it exacts on both the enslaved and the enslavers.Unlike the sentimental tone that characterizes parts of Stowes earlier work, Dred carries a sharper political edge. It grapples with questions of lawful resistance, moral responsibility, and the limits of patience in the face of systemic injustice. The swamp itself serves as a powerful metaphora place of refuge, danger, and hidden strengthreflecting the turbulent national climate of the 1850s as the United States edged closer to civil war.Stowes vivid characterizations and detailed depictions of Southern life provide readers with a multifaceted view of a divided society. The novel challenges complacency and urges reflection on the cost of compromise with injustice. At its core, Dred is both a story of suffering and a call for transformation, emphasizing the urgent need for moral courage and societal change.Ambitious, impassioned, and historically significant, Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp stands as an important work of American literature. It captures a nation in moral crisis and gives voice to the struggle for freedom and human dignity in one of the most turbulent periods of American history.