Hart Crane: After His Lights Book

Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin

Uncle Tom's Cabin brought with its huge success enormous attention to the depravity of slavery. Many people, however, questioned the basis of truth of the novel and few targeted Stowe and stated she just created a fiction, in fact what her book narrates and what happens in real is exactly opposite as slavery was just her dream and such things in real doesn't exist..
In response, Ms. Stowe gathered her research materials and published them in this now rare book.

This book shows how true incidents were the catalyst in creating the fictional work of Uncle Tom's Cabin. Harriet Beecher Stowe illustrates the inspirations behind the characters of Mr. Haley, Mr. and Mrs. Shelby, George Harris, Eliza, Miss Ophelia, Marie St. Clare, Legree, Topsy, etc.

She uses actual letters, graphs, newspaper advertisements, newspaper articles, court cases and historical events as among the few of her primary and secondary resources.