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Uncle Tom's Cabin

by Harriet Beecher Stowe

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  1. 01Front matter~3 min
  2. 02CHAPTER I In Which the Reader Is Introduced to a Man of Humanity — part 1~25 min
  3. 03CHAPTER I In Which the Reader Is Introduced to a Man of Humanity — part 2~2 min
  4. 04CHAPTER II The Mother~8 min
  5. 05CHAPTER III The Husband and Father~14 min
  6. 06CHAPTER IV An Evening in Uncle Tom’s Cabin — part 1~25 min
  7. 07CHAPTER IV An Evening in Uncle Tom’s Cabin — part 2~5 min
  8. 08CHAPTER V Showing the Feelings of Living Property on Changing Owners~23 min
  9. 09CHAPTER VI Discovery~23 min
  10. 10CHAPTER VII The Mother’s Struggle — part 1~25 min
  11. 11CHAPTER VII The Mother’s Struggle — part 2~9 min
  12. 12CHAPTER VIII Eliza’s Escape — part 1~25 min
  13. 13CHAPTER VIII Eliza’s Escape — part 2~16 min
  14. 14CHAPTER IX In Which It Appears That a Senator Is But a Man — part 1~25 min
  15. 15CHAPTER IX In Which It Appears That a Senator Is But a Man — part 2~19 min
  16. 16CHAPTER X The Property Is Carried Off — part 1~25 min
  17. 17CHAPTER X The Property Is Carried Off — part 2~1 min
  18. 18CHAPTER XI In Which Property Gets into an Improper State of Mind — part 1~23 min
  19. 19CHAPTER XI In Which Property Gets into an Improper State of Mind — part 2~13 min
  20. 20CHAPTER XII Select Incident of Lawful Trade — part 1~25 min
  21. 21CHAPTER XII Select Incident of Lawful Trade — part 2~18 min
  22. 22CHAPTER XIII The Quaker Settlement~23 min
  23. 23CHAPTER XIV Evangeline — part 1~25 min
  24. 24CHAPTER XIV Evangeline — part 2~1 min
  25. 25CHAPTER XV Of Tom’s New Master, and Various Other Matters — part 1~25 min
  26. 26CHAPTER XV Of Tom’s New Master, and Various Other Matters — part 2~16 min
  27. 27CHAPTER XVI Tom’s Mistress and Her Opinions — part 1~25 min
  28. 28CHAPTER XVI Tom’s Mistress and Her Opinions — part 2~23 min
  29. 29CHAPTER XVII The Freeman’s Defence — part 1~25 min
  30. 30CHAPTER XVII The Freeman’s Defence — part 2~19 min

A few words to begin

Late in the afternoon of a chilly day in February, two gentlemen were sitting alone over their wine, in a well-furnished dining parlor, in the town of P——, in Kentucky. There were no servants present, and the gentlemen, with chairs closely approaching, seemed to be discussing some subject with great earnestness. For convenience sake, we have said, hitherto, two _gentlemen_. One of the parties, however, when critically examined, did not seem, strictly speaking, to come under the species. He was a short, thick-set man, with coarse, commonplace features, and that swaggering air of pretension which marks a low man who is trying to elbow his way upward in the world. He was much over-dressed, in a gaudy vest of many colors, a blue neckerchief, bedropped gayly with yellow spots, and arranged with a flaunting tie, quite in keeping with the general air of the man. His hands, large and coarse, were plentifully bedecked with rings; and he wore a heavy gold watch-chain, with a bundle of seals of portentous size, and a great variety of colors, attached to it,—which, in the ardor of conversation, he was in the habit of flourishing and jingling with evident satisfaction. His conversation was in free and easy defiance of Murray’s Grammar,[1] and was garnished at convenient intervals with various profane expressions, which not even the desire to be graphic in our account shall induce us to tra…

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