Uncle Tom's Cabin, First Edition

Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896). Uncle Tom's Cabin; Or, Life Among the Lowly. Boston and Cleveland, Ohio: John P. Jewett & Company and Jewett, Proctor & Worthington, 1852. 2 volumes, 8vo. Title page vignettes, 6 engravings. Original green cloth gilt, BAL Binding B. FIRST EDITION, "Eight-fifth thousand." BAL 19343. Grolier American 61.

WITH Harriet Beecher Stowe. A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin. Boston, etc: John P. Jewett & Co, 1853. 8vo. Original cloth.

First edition of Stowe's seminal abolitionist novel widely credited with changing the attitudes of the American public towards slavery and Black Americans.

[African Americana, African American History, Black History, Slavery, Enslavement, Abolition, Emancipation, Books, Ephemera]