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A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin

Written by Harriet Beecher Stowe, the author of Uncle Tom's Cabin, A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin is an attempt to document the veracity of the depiction of slavery in Stowe's anti-slavery novel and provides insights into Stowe's views on slavery. It was first published in 1853 by Jewett, Proctor & Worthington.

References

• Otter, Samuel. "Stowe and Race." The Cambridge Companion to Harriet Beecher Stowe. Ed. Cindy Weinstein. Cambridge Companions to Literature (Cctl). Cambridge, England: Cambridge UP, 2004. 15-38.
• Stowe, Harriet Beecher. A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin; Presenting the Original Facts and Documents Upon Which the Story Is Founded. Together with Corroborative Statements Verifying the Truth of the Work. Boston & Cleveland, OH: Jewett, Proctor & Worthington, 1852.

External links

• Full text of A Key (1854 edition) at the electronic text center of the University of Virginia. It is part of "Uncle Tom's Cabin and American Culture: A Multimedia Archive" directed by Stephen Railton. Accessed July 22, 2006.