A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin

A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin is a book written by Harriet Beecher Stowe, the writer of Uncle Tom's Cabin. She was trying to show that the stories she wrote about slaves in Uncle Tom's Cabin were true. However, later studies showed that Stowe had actually read lots of the books she wrote about in A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin after she had published her novel. 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.

Other websites

• Full text of A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin Archived 2009-06-18 at the Wayback Machine (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" Archived 2009-05-07 at the Wayback Machine directed by Stephen Railton. Accessed July 22, 2006.

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