Can Words Lead to War?

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Passages from Hawthorne's NotebooksThe Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 110, December 1866. (Public Domain)

Uncle Tom’s Cabin and American Culture: A Multi-media Archive, directed by Stephen Railton, the University of Virginia.

Individual Chapters from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Images - Illustrations from Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe. 1st ed. Boston: John P. Jewett and Company, 1852 (Public Domain)
“W. B. S.,” Boston Morning Post, May 3, 1852. Public Domain. Reproduced from Uncle Tom’s Cabin and American Culture: A Multi-media Archive, directed by Stephen Railton, the University of Virginia.

Unsigned Article from the Southern Press Review. Public Domain. Reproduced from Uncle Tom’s Cabin and American Culture: A Multi-media Archive, directed by Stephen Railton, the University of Virginia.

The National Era, unsigned article, Washington, DC, September 2, 1852. Public Domain. Reproduced from Uncle Tom’s Cabin and American Culture: A Multi-­?media Archive, directed by Stephen Railton, the University of Virginia.

The Liberator by John Ball Jr., Boston, September 8, 1854. Public Domain. Reproduced from Uncle Tom’s Cabin and American Culture: A Multi-­?media Archive, directed by Stephen Railton, the University of Virginia. 


Uncle Tom's Cabin: History of the Book in the 19th-Century United States by Michael Winship, Department Of English, University Of Texas At Austin

Aspects of the Publishing History of Uncle Tom’s Cabin, 1851-1900 by Ronald D. Patkus and Mary C. Schlosser