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    La Cabaña Del Tio Tom
    La Cabaña Del Tio Tom
    La Cabaña Del Tio Tom
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    La Cabaña Del Tio Tom

    Written by Harriet Beecher Stowe

    Narrated by Yadira Sanchez

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    Abraham Lincoln definió a la autora de La cabaña del tío Tom como “la mujer que ganó la guerra”. En efecto, ella escribió su obra para denunciar el drama de la esclavitud, en un momento en que la ley obligaba a denunciar a los esclavos fugitivos. Y su libro llegó a ser uno de los más leídos, no sólo en Norteamérica, sino en todo el mundo, y no sólo en ese entonces, sino también en la actualidad.
    Es la vida del negro Tom, quien, entre buenos y malos amos, conserva hasta el fin su bondad y su fe.
    LanguageEspañol
    PublisherYOYO USA
    Release dateJan 1, 2001
    ISBN9781611554250
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    Harriet Beecher Stowe

    Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811–1896) was an American abolitionist and author of more than 20 books, including novels, three travel memoirs, and collections of articles and letters. Her novel Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852) was a realistic account of life for African-Americans under slavery; it reached millions and became influential in the United States and United Kingdom.

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    • 5/5
      Uncle Tom's Cabin, which is set between 1840 and 1850, is a novel that brought the cruelties of slavery into American homes. It unveils how slaves, like Uncle Tom and Eliza, were treated by slave owners, like Simon Legree. Throughout the novel there's a strong contrast between good and evil, which is personified by the different slave owners. First, Tom and Eliza serve a Christian family. Tom embraces Christianity through his compassion for others, honesty, evangelism, humbleness and his obedience without compromising his beliefs. Eliza, a beautiful Christian mulatto, shows her courage and love for her son. This love becomes strongest when she escapes with him to Canada after he's sold to pay debts. In the meantime, Tom is sold to Simon Legree. Simon displays evilness in his strength, greed and brutality. After Tom's friend escapes the plantation, Tom is blamed. The plot thickens when in Eliza's journey to Canada, she literally skates over thin ice as her son's master is close behind.
    • 2/5
      While I understand the book’s historical importance and appreciate its message, I had a really hard time getting through this for a couple of reasons. First, the religious rhetoric was very difficult for me. The long passages of religious posturing seemed to go on and on without end. Second, the characters are extremely one dimensional and idealized. Even the quite evil Legree is said to somehow see the wrong he is doing and still choose the path of evil. Third, there are entirely too many happy or sad coincidences. Characters randomly happen upon one another by chance. It took me out of the story at times. I am glad I re-read it (it has been years), and I value the importance of the work. However, I don’t think I will be reading again.Note: Read through DailyLit
    • 4/5
      I loved this! Beautiful and heartbreaking though some of my emotional bonds were stronger with side characters. It's fascinating to see how our perspectives of Uncle Tom have evolved throughout history.
    • 4/5
      This is a powerful story of the ills of slavery. The characters come alive and make you feel like you are a part of the story. I really enjoyed the strong females in the book and the portrayal of slavery and its effects on families and individuals. I found this book to be a compelling story and hard to put down. I highly recommend it.
    • 5/5
      The 1952 Dodd, Mead Great Illustrated Classics edition is wonderful. Illustrations include those of Cruikshank, Dunbar, and others; Langston Hughes wrote the captions and an Introduction.Apparently, Dickens and Trollope praised this book, and the first run, of 5,000 copies, sold out in two days in 1852 in Boston. I believe it.
    • 5/5
      La narración es hermosa pero la historia es cruel y tristemente realista. Totalmente recomendable.
    • 5/5
      Es muy triste, pero hacer reflexionar tanto sobre la naturaleza humana, que nos incita a ser mejores personas
    • 5/5
      I have to admit that I only just read it for the first time. All I can say is that this book is amazing -- and that Harriet Beecher Stowe must have been a genius because of the way she manipulated the story to "preach" for her without preaching.
    • 5/5
      Muy triste pero bonito, lo recomiendo para todas las edades
    • 3/5
      Well, I'm pleased to say that I finally finished Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe. I have always wanted to read this book given its status as an American classic, and that the author was considered to be the first 'serious' female American author. The novel was published in 1852 and addresses the issue of slavery in such a confronting and raw way that it would have been very difficult to ignore in its time. I must admit that I struggled to get through this one, as the dialogue of the characters is extremely authentic to the times and therefore difficult to follow. The subject matter is also quite heavy and religion is mentioned on almost every page. All in all, I can now see why this book is called a 'classic' and I'm really glad I persisted and finished it.Would I recommend it? That's difficult to say... if you like to challenge yourself every now and again by reading a classic (like I do) then sure, this is worth it.
    • 2/5
      The benefits of Christianity, as described here, are so bountiful that one wonders how slavery dared to exist in its presence. The story is so replete with Jesus figures that the author has to juggle them carefully to avoid a scene where they must all sacrifice themselves en masse. The author is to be commended for restricting her anti-semitism to only a single line.
    • 3/5
      *3.5

      This is so weird to review—It's just so clearly a product of its time, how am I supposed to rate it?!

      Pros: Harriet Beecher Stowe is obviously pro-abolition and deeply believes in the equality of races. Her entire work is imbued with that fact, tinged throughout by equally deep Christianity

      Cons: Unintentionally racist. Nearly all the black character's names become stereotypes (oops). The titular character Tom is an allegory of Jesus Christ and is thus massively passive. This somehow makes his character... arguably anti-black.

      Concluding thoughts: I would have appreciated this a lot more if I like, still believed in God. Despite all of Stowe's weird outdated conception of racial equality, I'm incredibly glad I read it. If you want to know what Victorian mores were, what the mindset of white people was during the time, of the role of women in abolitionism, fuck, just what people were consuming in the mid 19th century, then this is the book. I'm in a material culture class of New England right now and we just look at tons of pottery that was inspired by the book. It's just insane how pervasive it was.

      I'd still recommend it, just so you can understand and educate yourself.
    • 5/5
      "Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good not to do harm."Having run up large debts and facing the prospect of losing everything he owns Kentucky farmer Arthur Shelby decides to raise money needed by selling two of his slaves to a slave trader. The slaves in question are Uncle Tom, a pious middle-aged farmhand with a wife and children, and Harry, the young son of Mrs. Shelby’s maid Eliza. Eliza overhears the proposed transaction and, after warning Uncle Tom and his wife, takes Harry and flees North, hoping to reach Canada and freedom. Meanwhile, Uncle Tom accepts his fate and sadly leaves his family to be transported south to a slave market. The novel follows the two very different routes as each tries to obtain their freedom.The narrative takes many forms but is predominantly written in the form of sermon, dramatic debate, melodrama and allegory with an omniscient narrator. First published in March 1852 "Uncle Tom's Cabin" sold ten thousand copies in the first week and within a year three hundred thousand had been sold in America and nearly a million in England, it quickly became the most popular and arguably the most influential novel ever written by an American. More pertinently, in 1861, on the eve of the Civil War, it had sold four and a half million copies which amounts to one copy for every four of five readers when you discount children and illiterate slaves from the calculation. Perhaps what is most astounding is that up until this point Beecher Stowe had never contemplated writing a novel and had in fact "avoided all reading upon or allusion to the subject of slavery."Not surprisingly the novel was greeted with outrage in the South but Beecher Stowe also attacks those of the North who help to facilitate and so continue the practice of slavery but she also attacks employers who pay their staff poverty wages which still resonates today."Treat 'em like dogs, and you'll have dog's works and dog's actions. Treat 'em like men, and you'll have men's work."The Beecher Stowe were deeply religious so it isn't surprising that there are plenty of biblical references throughout and whilst I don't believe that Beecher Stowe was deliberately racist today's readers will probably see an unconscious racism within. Generally I felt that the negro characters were poorly drawn in comparison to the white ones, this seems particularly true when you look at allegory between Eva and Topsy. Stowe also seems to suggest that Africans more willingly become Christians because of their experiences than Whites do which seemed a little simplistic. There also seems to be an inconsistency in the actions of Tom and Eliza's husband George. Whereas Tom willingly leaves his family and submits to what fate has in store for him George shoots to kill at his pursuers yet both are supposedly devout Christians. This is an important novel that is still relevant today but it isn't without its faults as I've said above but overall I found it a surprisingly enjoyable read given its age and the subject matter. It certainly left me much to ponder."I am braver than I was because I have lost all; and he who has nothing to lose can afford all risks."
    • 3/5
      I can't read anymore. Vile vile humans. I am just sick. This is the second time I have tried reading it and I am in tears. The subject matter is too hard to bear reading so I have stopped.
    • 5/5
      This great piece of American literature, was first published in 1859. Written by Harriet Beecher Stowe, herself an abolitionist, wrote this important novel as a stand against slavery, not just in America, but worldwide. This story is gritty, disturbing and well presented. Stowe doesn't mince her words in the graphic representations of the horrific torturous acts committed against the unfortunate. A masterpiece.
    • 5/5
      I have never read this classic before. It was pretty heavy-handed with the debate of slavery. I skipped some of that. It was still a great book. Uncle Tom is used by some to name call other black people. I don't have an opinion on the right and wrong of that. However, Uncle Tom is a complex, rich character. There are many layers to him, even though he does accept his role as a slave.

      The story is written in an old-fashion way (of course) but were still engaging.
    • 4/5
      Stowe uses rhetoric deliberately and proficiently to describe the evils of abusing humans for their skin color. In fact, substitute black for gay, and you may flinch at how accurate this novel still is today.
    • 4/5
      Harriet Beecher Stowe's book is one that I would classify as important rather than great. It's a powerful condemnation of slavery using the language of Stowe's Christian faith, and her moral outrage at it seeps through nearly every page. This I expected; what I didn't expect was how she developed her characters. While her African American characters are uniformly dignified and good, most of the slaveholders received surprisingly nuanced treatments, with some good (if hypocritical) characters among them and only the infamous Simon Legree really embodying in full the evil and corruption resulting from slavery. Yet for all the positive nature of her depiction of her slave characters Stowe cannot help but reflect the racial attitudes of her time, with descriptions that have not aged well. In this she demonstrates the limits of even antislavery activists in their attitudes towards African Americans, yet this is all of a piece in a work that arguably serves as the most historically significant novel in American history, one that helped galvanize opposition to the institution that was corroding the nation's soul.
    • 1/5
      Absolute trite garbage. One of the worst reading experiences I have experienced. This is religious sentimentality in its worst basest most soap-opera form. Pompous and self-aggrandizing. I would NOT recommend it to anyone unless you have to read it for your studies as a mandatory text.
    • 4/5
      A very interesting and informative description of dark times that most of us might prefer to go through life not 'knowing' but must learn about in detail not in a glossed over history book.
    • 3/5
      The story of Tom and his unflinching honor and kindness, the courage of Eliza escaping with her child across the river ice, the cruelty inflicted by the horrible Simon Legree, the efforts of the Shelbys and the St. Clares to live morally in an immoral system: these are great stories told well. The influence of the Christian religion on the author and thus on her characters is all-pervading and oppressive after a while. The book does read as a polemic and, no doubt, an effective one at the time. It is read now for its place in history rather than its intrinsic value as literature, I think.
    • 4/5
      Published in 1852 by Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin is an antislavery book. It is a story written in supplements like Dicken's wrote his stories and the stories of various characters revolve around Uncle Tom, a longsuffering, godly man. It was the best selling novel of the 19th century, second to the Bible. The characters can be called stereotypes and this book gets much criticism in this day and age. I read this after reading The Underground Railroad and am glad to have done so. What I liked in the story is that the author not only shows the evil of slavery in south she also shows the bigotry of the Northern people in their treatment of blacks. It is unfortunate to only criticize the book for its stereotypes and fail to acknowledge the impact of the book during the time in which it was written. Rating 3.85
    • 4/5
      Brutal and confronting portrait of American slavery.
    • 5/5
      This book is so overwhelming good, I just don't know what to say, other than, I wish I had read it earlier in my life, and I wish all United States citizens and residents were required to read this. The author's "Concluding Remarks" alone are powerful enough to bring the reader to tears, and the whole book makes one question man's inhumanity to man in one of the darkest chapters of this planet's history. I feel spent just from having read it. I can't imagine all the poor souls who had to go through this...
    • 4/5
      While hard to read at times (both due to the subject matter and the 19th-century prose), this book remains just as powerful as many readers found it upon first publication. Uncle Tom's Cabin traces the stories of several slaves as they navigate between masters, escape, freedom, daily toil, and faith. At the outset, Tom and another very young slave Harry are intended for sale to settle the debts of their master in Kentucky. Harry's mother Eliza discovers the plan and frantically runs away, braving the ice on the Ohio River to bring herself and her son to freedom. They are later joined by her husband George, while Tom is sold first to a kind master, then comes under the ownership of an abusive one. In each step of Tom and Eliza's journeys, they meet other slaves with tragic tales and white allies who maintain escape routes for runaway slaves. While slavery may be long past, this book remains a stark picture of how the United States once was and is still a powerful message about racism.
    • 5/5
      I spent two months reading “Uncle Tom’s Cabin”, not for the complexity of prose but for the subject matter. At times, reading no more than two pages, putting it down, digesting the words (or trying to forget the words) for days before picking it up again. I don’t know how many tissues I went through reading this book. My reading speed picked up when the precocious little Eva entered the pages. Oh, how I fell in love with Eva St. Clare. She was the joy and sunshine in a dark, oppressive tale who reminded the reader how innocence, love, and kindness can radiate to all. I needed her to carry me through this difficult story. (In 1852, 300 babies in Boston alone were named Eva.)“Uncle Tom’s Cabin” traced the story of the pious Uncle Tom and a related/parallel story of escaping slaves, George, Eliza, and Harry Harris. Tragedy strikes throughout UTC, with deaths on both the blacks and the whites. The book was based on the life of Josiah Henson, an escaped slave who fled to Canada with his wife and children in the 1830s. The tragic tales (the suicides, the torture of slaves) and the amazing feat of jumping an icy river were leveraged from real life tales. Published in 1852, Stowe was inspired to write UTC partly due to the 1850 Fugitive Slave Law prohibiting assistance to fugitives. Stowe and her husband were both abolitionist and had supported the Underground Tunnel. A goal of the book was to educate northerners of the realistic horrors of the slave trade happening in the South and also to increase (or initiate) empathy towards slaves for the southerners. This book became a best seller, leading up to the apocryphal that when Abraham Lincoln met Stowe at the start of the Civil War, Lincoln declared, "So this is the little lady who started this great war." However, this text was never in print until 1896. It would have been a good story if true.Needless to say, the book was condemned in the South during the same era and even in recent history. Interestingly, as African-Americans became educated and were reading the book for the first time, they too criticized the book for its stereotyping of blacks – obsequious and toadying. While I can understand this perspective, the book had served its purpose in 1852. 4 stars for the book itself (a bit wordy). 0.5 stars for the highly affective emotional tugs without feeling overwrought. 0.5 stars for the significant historical footprint it left. Favorite character: Hands down, Eva St. Clare Least favorite character: It could have been Haley, the slave trader, or Legree, the cruel plantation owner, but it was Marie Benoir/St. Clare – the most obnoxious, self-centered, tyrannical being who tormented Mammy and refused Tom’s freedom just for the money, even though she doesn’t need it. I wanted to strangle her. Things I learned: 1. The tragic baby/slave making that women were forced to do. 2. The vulnerability of slaves upon the master’s death. Some Quotes:On beauty and old age:"Her hair, partially silvered by age, was parted smoothly back from a high placid forehead, on which time had written no inscription, except peace on earth, good will to men, and beneath shone a large pair of clear, honest, loving brown eyes; you only needed to look straight into them, to feel that you saw to the bottom of a heart as good and true as ever throbbed in woman's bosom. So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why don't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women?"On God:"’Is there a God to trust in?’ said George, in such a tone of bitter despair as arrested the old gentleman's words. ‘O, I've seen things all my life that made me feel that there can't be a God. You Christians don't know how these look to us. There's a God for you, but is there any for us?’"On racism, from St. Clare:You = Northerners. “You loathe them as you would a snake or a toad, yet you are indignant at their wrongs. You would not have them abused; but you don’t want to have anything to do with them yourselves. You would send them to Africa, out of your sight and smell, and then send a missionary or two to do up all the self-denial of elevating them compendiously.” On religion, from St. Clare:"Religion! Is what you hear at church religion? Is that which can bend and turn, and descend and ascend, to fit every crooked phase of selfish, worldly society, religion? Is that religion which is less scrupulous, less generous, less just, less considerate for man, than even my own ungodly, worldly, blinded nature? No! When I look for a religion, I must look for something above me, and not something beneath."On slavery, from St. Clare:“It’s all nonsense to talk to me about slaves enjoying all this! … Tell me that any man living wants to work all his days, from day-dawn till dark, under the constant eye of a master, without the power of putting forth one irresponsible volition, on the same dreary, monotonous, unchanging toil, and all for two pairs of pantaloons and a pair of shoes a year, with enough food shelter to keep him in working order!”
    • 5/5
      “The way of the wicked is as darkness; he knoweth not at what he stumbleth.”Written in 1852, this book continues today as a classic novel about slavery, racism, hope and the Christian faith. It was written to educate as well as to remind future generations. It was a best-seller, selling 10,000 copies in the United States in its first week; 300,000 in the first year. It also sold then, and still sells today, in the international market. It has been on banned book lists since its publication. Today, many school districts and/or states ban it due to language, racism, and/or Christianity.Mrs. Stowe was from the Northeast United States. The United States Congress passed the Compromise of 1850. It was intended to address the concerns of slave holding and free states, yet it helped galvanize the abolition movement. Mrs. Stowe formed her stance on slavery because of this law. Among the provisions of the Compromise of 1850 were the end of the slave trade, but not slavery, and the creation of a stricter Fugitive Slave Law. Helping runaways had been illegal since 1793, but the 1850 law required that everyone help catch fugitives. This law erased any protection that a fugitive had had. Anyone on the street could be picked up and accused of being a fugitive from slavery. Thus free Blacks were often picked up and sent into slavery.She was angry, believing her country was now requiring her to comply with a system that she believed was unjust and immoral. While she and her husband, Calvin Stowe, were living in Maine, she disobeyed the law by hiding runaways. Mrs. Stowe lived in Connecticut, Ohio, and Maine, yet she knew slavery through several avenues. While in Ohio, she and her husband were a part of the Underground Railroad. Her brother met a plantation owner who was cruel and evil as the book’s Simon Legree. She traveled to Kentucky where she visited plantations with slaves. She felt the message of slavery needed to be espoused clearly and loudly. She shared her frustrations and feelings of powerlessness with her family. It was then that her sister-in-law suggested she do more: “…if I could use a pen as you can, Hatty, I would write something that would make this whole nation feel what an accursed thing slavery is.” This letter touched Mrs. Stowe to the heart. She was determined to write “if [she] lived.”The story follows two lines. One is Tom who chooses to stay with his family rather than run away once he finds that he is to be sold to pay debts of the plantation owner. He hoped that his family would be able to stay together if he did not run. The second is Eliza who finds that her young son, Harry, is also to be sold for these debts. Eliza chooses to run away with Harry.We follow Eliza and Harry as they wind their way on escape routes, running just ahead of slave hunters, being protected by Quakers missionaries along the way to arrive safely in Canada. We also follow Tom from plantation owners who treat their slaves gently and kindly to being sold to a harsh slave trader who then sells Tom to other plantation owners. The final one is the cruel and violent Simon Legree.Slavery and the slave trade separated families, husbands from wives, mothers from children. Punishments, fierce and gruesome, showed that slaves were treated as less than human. Freedom came for some; others received promises of freedom, but when the master died suddenly or he racked up a lot of debt, those slaves were sold “down the river.”There are moments in the story filled with hope and love, people desiring to help others. There are times filled with cruelty and fear, people filled with hatred. Uncle Tom’s Cabin is fiction yet is based on a conglomerate portrait of slaves, owners, families, and abolitionists. It has the genuine mixture of story/subject, characters, settings, and emotions to make it a classic and a bestseller. It is an excellent story, although so hard and harsh at times, yet carried along with hope and love.AuthorHarriet Beecher was born June 14, 1811 in Litchfield, CT to the Rev. Lyman Beecher (1775-1863) and Roxanna Foote Beecher (1775- 1816); the sixth of 11 children. The Beechers expected their children to make a difference in the world, and they truly did: All seven sons became ministers (the most effective way to influence society in that period) Oldest daughter, Catharine pioneered education for women Youngest daughter, Isabella was a founder of the National Women’s Suffrage Association Harriet believed her purpose in life was to write. Her most famous work exposed the truth about the greatest social injustice of her day – human slaveryStowe began her formal education at Sarah Pierce’s academy, one of the earliest to encourage girls to study academic subjects and not simply ornamental arts. In 1824, she became a student and then a teacher at Hartford Female Seminary, which was founded by her sister Catharine.In 1851, The National Era’s publisher contracted with Stowe for a story that would “paint a word picture of slavery” and that would run in installments. Uncle Tom’s Cabin or Life Among the Lowly turned out to be more than 40 installments before it was published into a book.In all, Harriet Beecher Stowe’s writing career spanned 51 years, during which time she published 30 books and countless short stories, poems, articles, and hymns.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~This has been a book I have wanted to read for years and years. I finally decided it would fit into my library of Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson and Slavery by Another Name by Douglas A. Blackmon, two excellent non-fiction books.This book is 496 pages. I joined in Sue Jackson’s “Big Book Summer Challenge” @ Book By Book (as this book was over the 400 page minimum).
    • 5/5
      This book lies so heavy on my heart. There is one thing in our country's history that bothers me the most and that is slavery. This book was very hard for me to listen to. I can't wrap my mind around someone treating another person like dogs because of the color of their skin. There were many times that I wanted to smack several people for the things they said. I would like to believe if I had lived during times of slavery I would be one of the people who helped free slaves and stand up for their rights. I don't have time for hatred and it saddens me when people are abused.
    • 4/5
      Although the character Uncle Tom has been criticized for being too meek and utterly subservient, and too gentle and religious when maybe a real person would have been bitter and rebellious instead, that's hardly the point of this book.Stowe, the daughter of a preacher, opposed slavery on the grounds of her faith. That is evident throughout the book, and regardless of the reader's religious persuasion, the truth about slavery and its inherent injustice is brought to light and boldly condemned.In this book, she represented an entire range of slaves and slave-owners, from the persistent superlative meekness and gentleness of Uncle Tom to the desperate rebellion of others, and from the kindness of one slave-owner to the insane cruelty of Simon Legree. She draws special attention to the tragedy of mothers and children being separated and the inability of slaves to protect themselves or their families, and even the futility of a kind master's good intentions.
    • 5/5
      I felt I had to read the classic. The novel was interesting and kept my attention. I hadn't realized how religious it was.