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UNCLE TOM'S CABIN. or. Life among the Lowly
By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Contents
VOLUME I
CHAPTER I. In Which the Reader Is Introduced to a Man of Humanity
CHAPTER II. The Mother
CHAPTER III. The Husband and Father
CHAPTER IV. An Evening in Uncle Tom's Cabin
CHAPTER V. Showing the Feelings of Living Property on Changing Owners
CHAPTER VI. Discovery
CHAPTER VII. The Mother's Struggle
CHAPTER VIII. Eliza's Escape
CHAPTER IX. In Which It Appears That a Senator Is But a Man
CHAPTER X. The Property Is Carried Off
CHAPTER XI. In Which Property Gets into an Improper State of Mind
CHAPTER XII. Select Incident of Lawful Trade
CHAPTER XIII. The Quaker Settlement
CHAPTER XIV. Evangeline
CHAPTER XV. Of Tom's New Master, and Various Other Matters
CHAPTER XVI. Tom's Mistress and Her Opinions
CHAPTER XVII. The Freeman's Defence
CHAPTER XVIII. Miss Ophelia's Experiences and Opinions
VOLUME II
CHAPTER XIX. Miss Ophelia's Experiences and Opinions Continued
CHAPTER XX. Topsy
CHAPTER XXI. Kentuck
CHAPTER XXII "The Grass Withereth—the Flower Fadeth"
CHAPTER XXIII. Henrique
CHAPTER XXIV. Foreshadowings
CHAPTER XXV. The Little Evangelist
CHAPTER XXVI. Death
CHAPTER XXVII "This Is the Last of Earth"*
CHAPTER XXVIII. Reunion
CHAPTER XXIX. The Unprotected
CHAPTER XXX. The Slave Warehouse
CHAPTER XXXI. The Middle Passage
CHAPTER XXXII. Dark Places
CHAPTER XXXIII. Cassy
CHAPTER XXXIV. The Quadroon's Story
CHAPTER XXXV. The Tokens
CHAPTER XXXVI. Emmeline and Cassy
CHAPTER XXXVII. Liberty
CHAPTER XXXVIII. The Victory
CHAPTER XXXIX. The Stratagem
CHAPTER XL. The Martyr
CHAPTER XLI. The Young Master
CHAPTER XLII. An Authentic Ghost Story
CHAPTER XLIII. Results
CHAPTER XLIV. The Liberator
CHAPTER XLV. Concluding Remarks
Late in the afternoon of a chilly day in February, two gentlemen were sitting alone over their wine, in a well-furnished dining parlor, in the town of P——, in Kentucky. There were no servants present, and the gentlemen, with chairs closely approaching, seemed to be discussing some subject with great earnestness.
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Mrs. Shelby stood like one stricken. Finally, turning to her toilet, she rested her face in her hands, and gave a sort of groan.
"This is God's curse on slavery!—a bitter, bitter, most accursed thing!—a curse to the master and a curse to the slave! I was a fool to think I could make anything good out of such a deadly evil. It is a sin to hold a slave under laws like ours,—I always felt it was,—I always thought so when I was a girl,—I thought so still more after I joined the church; but I thought I could gild it over,—I thought, by kindness, and care, and instruction, I could make the condition of mine better than freedom—fool that I was!"
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