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Uncle Tom's Cabin and Frederick Douglass: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (Everyman's Library)
Uncle Tom's Cabin and Frederick Douglass Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass an American Slave - Everyman's Library Author:Harriet Beecher Stowe, Frederick Douglass Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852) proved popular from the start, selling 300,000 copies in its first year. Stowe's characters, which merited sympathy for the abolitionist cause and inflamed pre-Civil War tension, remain as specters in the American literary and political imagination. Frederick Douglass' autobiographical writings, which became central... more » to the earliest American civil rights struggles, complement this brilliant propaganda piece.« less