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Uncle Tom’s Cabin, ed. by Elizabeth Ammons, 3rd ed. (2018), includes Stowe’s novel as well as critical essays and historical texts; The Annotated Uncle Tom’s Cabin, ed. by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Hollis Robbins (2007), includes extensive explanatory and contextualizing notes; Claire Parfait, The Publishing History of Uncle Tom’s Cabin, 1852–2002 (2007), is a comprehensive study; and David S. Reynolds, Mightier Than the Sword: Uncle Tom’s Cabin and the Battle for America (2011), is a history of the novel’s creation, reception, and afterlife.

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Add new Web site: Nature - Humanities and Social Sciences Communications - “An authentic ghost story”: manipulating the gothic in Uncle Tom's Cabin. Mar 29, 2025
Add new Web site: Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research - Uncle Tom�s Cabin as an African American Christian Fiction. Oct 22, 2024
Add new Web site: Essential Civil War Curriculum - Uncle Tom's Cabin. Sep 10, 2024
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Add new Web site: The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History - Uncle Tom’s Cabin and the Matter of Influence. Sep 07, 2023
Add new Web site: Harriet Beecher Stowe Center - Uncle Tom�s Cabin. May 16, 2023
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Add new Web site: Internet Archive - "Uncle Tom's cabin". Sep 05, 2022
Added information on characters, major themes, and film adaptations. Sep 13, 2021
Changed “black” to “Black” throughout article. Jul 23, 2020
Corrected display issue. May 04, 2020
Article thoroughly revised. Feb 05, 2018
New bibliography added. Feb 02, 2018
Add new Web site: Public Broadcasting Service - Africans in America - Slave narratives and Uncle Tom's Cabin. Jun 28, 2016
Add new Web site: Harriet Beecher Stowe Center - "Uncle Tom's Cabin". Jun 28, 2016
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