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Title: Uncle Tom's Cabin (Oxford World's Classics (Hardcover)) by Harriet Beecher Stowe, Charles Johnson ISBN: 0-19-515816-4 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: 01 September, 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)
Rating: 5
Summary: A Reality Check!
Comment: It will be found shocking to many African Americans (and educational for many Caucasians) to discover that Uncle Tom was the HERO of this classic novel, and not a "weakling" by any stretch of the imagination. "Uncle Tom", or its shorter form "Tom", has become a slanderous term within the African American community and implies a weak and Caucasian-controlled person, when in actuality Uncle Tom was a powerfully moral man who was willing to die for his convictions rather than succumb to the will of his worst oppressors. In fact, this book was credited by Abraham Lincoln himself as the catalyst that won his election on the abolition of slavery platform, and the resulting Civil War that followed. "Uncle Tom" became a negative slander one hundred years later only after Malcolm-X and the Black Muslims used it to slander Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. who exemplified similar characteristics of strength and courage--from a similarly peaceful perspective--in his approach to the Civil Rights issue. As with the fictitious character Tom, Dr. King also died for his convictions without raising a hand against his oppressors. I highly recommend this book to people of all colors and races because of the lessons of self-sacrifice and courage it contains. Caucasian readers will hopefully learn of the pain and suffering of the slaves and gain a deeper compassion for its lingering legacy today. However, I especially recommend Uncle Tom's Cabin to African Americans, for contained in its pages are stories of love, compassion and courage--by both black & white--that will offset the painful legacy of that period caused by the suffering of so many. May the ignorance of the "Uncle Tom" slander be eradicated from their minds as they read of the courage of this fictitious character--who reminded others of Dr. King himself--and the other characters whose struggles and triumphs are contained in its pages also. I also recommend the books: No Apology Necessary, by Earl Carter, Let's Get to Know Each Other, by Tony Evans, and my own book, which is-- White Man in a Black Man's World (tm), by Richard Vermillion.
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Title: Uncle Tom's Cabin (Cliffs Notes) by Thomas Thornburg, Mary Thornburg ISBN: 0764586777 Publisher: Cliffs Notes Pub. Date: 11 December, 2000 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Uncle Tom's Cabin (Bantam Classics) by Harriet Beecher Stowe, Alfred Kazin ISBN: 0553212184 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 January, 1983 List Price(USD): $5.95 |
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Title: Lord of the Flies by William Golding, E. M. Forster, E. L. Epstein, Ben Gibson ISBN: 0399529209 Publisher: Perigee Books Pub. Date: 28 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: The Poetry of Pablo Neruda by Pablo Neruda, Ilan Stavans ISBN: 0374299951 Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux Pub. Date: 19 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $40.00 |
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Title: Christmas Books (The Oxford Illustrated Dickens) by Charles Dickens ISBN: 0192545140 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: 01 September, 1987 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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