Uncle Tom's Cabin Illustrated Pages, undated

File — Box: 4250.001, Folder: 27

Scope and Contents

The collection contains four pages from an illustrated German version of Harriet Beecher Stowe's anti-slavery novel Uncle Tom's Cabin. Each page contains four panels depicting scenes from the book, with short blocks of accompanying text.

Dates

Creation: undated

Language of Materials

Material is in German.

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Biographical / Historical

The novel Uncle Tom's Cabin, by American abolitionist Harriet Beecher Stowe, was originally published in 1852, and quickly became popular worldwide. According to Grace Edith MacLean in "Uncle Tom's Cabin" in Germany (1910), by 1910 there were seventy-five distinct editions of the novel in German, including eleven abridgements for children.