"Uncle Tom`s Cabin; Or, Life among the Lowly," in The National Era

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Lot 57 | "Uncle Tom's Cabin; Or, Life among the Lowly," in The National Era
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"Uncle Tom's Cabin; Or, Life among the Lowly," in The National Era

Harriet Beecher Stowe, June 1851-April 1852

STOWE, Harriet Beecher (1811-1896). "Uncle Tom's Cabin; Or, Life among the Lowly," in The National Era. Edited by Gamaliel BAILEY and John D. WHITTIER. Washington, D.C.: 6 June 1851 - 1 April 1852. Nos. 231-274.



The extremely rare complete serial printing of Uncle Tom's Cabin. The most influential American book of the 19th century as it appeared to its first readers in the abolitionist newspaper, The National Era. A fine, unsophisticated and unbound set. Stowe received $300 to publish her work in the weekly paper National Era, at the time one of the leading abolitionist forums in America. Over the 10 months in which Uncle Tom's Cabin appeared, National Era increased its circulation by about 5000 readers. These newspaper issues are fascinating, providing the full context in which Stowe's work galvanized so many white people to oppose chattel slavery, including advertisements and reader responses in the form of letters to the editor. The sensational early success in National Era prompted the book form publication with John Jewett in Boston. As the issues continued to appear, Jewett grew nervous as he thought that the abolitionist market could bear only a cheap one-volume edition and Stowe's novel was quickly outpacing that. However, he need not have feared. The two-volume edition, illustrated with six engravings, was a blockbuster; it sold 300,000 copies in the first year. When Harriet Beecher Stowe visited the White House in 1862, President Lincoln was said to have exclaimed, "So you're the little woman who wrote the book that started this great war" (ANB). Grolier American 61; Grolier English 91; PMM 332.



44 newspaper issues, broadsheet folio (675 x 480mm). Bifolia, printed in six columns (folded into eighths with some light wear and tiny holes at fold intersections, no. 231 with worn area in upper left affecting text on pp. 2-4, no. 261 with a larger marginal tear, about four issues browned). Housed in two quarter morocco slipcases.

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