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Requires OverDrive Media Console (file size: 264210 KB). |
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Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Downloadable audio file. |
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Title from: Title details screen. |
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Unabridged. |
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Duration: 18:22:32. |
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Read by Buck Schirner. |
| Summary |
Published in 1852, Uncle Tom's Cabin brought the abolitionists' message to the public conscience, no woman before or since has so moved America to take action against an injustice. Indeed, Abraham Lincoln greeted Stowe in 1863 as "the little lady who made this big war." Eliza Harris, a slave whose child is to be sold, escapes her beloved home on the Shelby plantation in Kentucky and heads North, eluding the hired slave catchers. Aided by the underground railroad, Quakers, and others opposed to the Fugitive Slave Act, Eliza, her son, and her husband George run toward Canada. As the Harrises flee to freedom, another slave, Uncle Tom, is sent "down the river" for sale. Too loyal to abuse his master's trust, too Christian to rebel, Tom wrenches himself from his family. Befriending a white child, Evangeline St. Clare, Tom is purchased by her father and taken to their home in New Orleans. Although Evangeline's father finally resolves to free his slaves, his sudden ... |
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Slavery -- Southern States -- Fiction. -- Sound recordings.
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African Americans -- Southern States -- Fiction. -- Sound recordings.
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Plantation life -- Southern States -- Fiction. -- Sound recordings.
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Slaves -- Southern States -- Fiction. -- Sound recordings.
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Abolitionists -- Fiction. -- Sound recordings.
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Underground Railroad -- Fiction. -- Sound recordings.
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| Added Author |
Schirner, Buck.
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| ISBN |
1597108154 (sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book) |
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