Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Elizabeth Ammons
  • Letter to Frederick Douglass / Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • Letter to William Lloyd Garrison / Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • Letter to Mrs. Follen / Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • Does public opinion protect the slave? / Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • What is to be done? Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • Everybody's protest novel / James Baldwin
  • Love and death in Uncle Tom's Cabin / Leslie A. Fiedler
  • Sentimental power: Uncle Tom's Cabin and the politics of literary history / Jane P. Tompkins
  • Getting in the kitchen with Dinah: domestic politics in Uncle Tom's Cabin / Gillian Brown
  • Sharing the thunder: the literary exchanges of Harriet Beecher Stowe, Henry Bibb, and Frederick Douglass / Robert B. Stepto
  • Topsy and the end man: blackface in Uncle Tom's Cabin / Sarah Meer
  • "The promiscuous housekeeping": death, transgression, and homoeroticism in Uncle Tom's Cabin / P. Gabrielle Foreman
  • Who gets to create the lasting images? the problem of black representation in Uncle Tom's Cabin / Sophia Cantave
  • Up to heaven's gate, down to Earth's dust: the politics of judgment in Uncle Tom's Cabin / Joshua D. Bellin
  • Freeing the slaves and banishing the blacks: racism, empire, and Africa in Uncle Tom's Cabin / Elizabeth Ammons.