Uncle Tom's Cabin
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How it opens
Eliza comes to tell Uncle Tom that he is sold, and that she is running away to save her child. THE AUCTION SALE. THE FREEMAN’S DEFENCE. LITTLE EVA READING THE BIBLE TO UNCLE TOM IN THE ARBOR. CASSY MINISTERING TO UNCLE TOM AFTER HIS WHIPPING. THE FUGITIVES ARE SAVE IN A FREE LAND.…
Details
- AuthorHarriet Beecher Stowe
- SourceProject Gutenberg #203
- Length181,953 words · 12h 08m of reading
- Chapters46
- DictionaryIncluded
- CopyrightPublic domain in the United States
- Source checked2026-08-28
Contents
46 chapters
Recovered from the original source text, so you can open the book at any of them.
- 01CHAPTER I In Which the Reader Is Introduced to a Man of Humanity
- 02CHAPTER II The Mother
- 03CHAPTER III The Husband and Father
- 04CHAPTER IV An Evening in Uncle Tom’s Cabin
- 05CHAPTER V Showing the Feelings of Living Property on Changing Owners
- 06CHAPTER VI Discovery
- 07CHAPTER VII The Mother’s Struggle
- 08CHAPTER VIII Eliza’s Escape
- 09CHAPTER IX In Which It Appears That a Senator Is But a Man
- 10CHAPTER X The Property Is Carried Off
- 11CHAPTER XI In Which Property Gets into an Improper State of Mind
- 12CHAPTER XII Select Incident of Lawful Trade
- 13CHAPTER XIII The Quaker Settlement
- 14CHAPTER XIV Evangeline
- 15CHAPTER XV Of Tom’s New Master, and Various Other Matters
- 16CHAPTER XVI Tom’s Mistress and Her Opinions
- 17CHAPTER XVII The Freeman’s Defence
- 18CHAPTER XVIII Miss Ophelia’s Experiences and Opinions
- 19CHAPTER XIX Miss Ophelia’s Experiences and Opinions Continued
- 20CHAPTER XX Topsy
- 21CHAPTER XXI Kentuck
- 22CHAPTER XXII “The Grass Withereth—the Flower Fadeth”
- 23CHAPTER XXIII Henrique
- 24The scene of the beating had been witnessed by the two brothers St. Clare, from another part of the garden.
- 25CHAPTER XXIV Foreshadowings
- 26CHAPTER XXV The Little Evangelist
- 27CHAPTER XXVI Death
- 28CHAPTER XXVII “This Is the Last of Earth”[1
- 29CHAPTER XXVIII Reunion
- 30CHAPTER XXIX The Unprotected
- 31CHAPTER XXX The Slave Warehouse
- 32CHAPTER XXXI The Middle Passage
- 33CHAPTER XXXII Dark Places
- 34CHAPTER XXXIII Cassy
- 35CHAPTER XXXIV The Quadroon’s Story
- 36CHAPTER XXXV The Tokens
- 37CHAPTER XXXVI Emmeline and Cassy
- 38CHAPTER XXXVII Liberty
- 39CHAPTER XXXVIII The Victory
- 40CHAPTER XXXIX The Stratagem
- 41CHAPTER XL The Martyr
- 42CHAPTER XLI The Young Master
- 43CHAPTER XLII An Authentic Ghost Story
- 44CHAPTER XLIII Results
- 45CHAPTER XLIV The Liberator
- 46CHAPTER XLV Concluding Remarks
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