rosethorne 's review for:

Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

5.0

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I should have read this book years ago. It is such an important work and all I really knew about the story was the excerpt in The King and I. I listened to this as an audiobook on Librivox, read by John Greenman. His interpretation was excellent and the written word itself was bold and soulful. It is a product of its times in many ways and definitely reads as an abolitionist argument. In these days it is hard to understand how shocking and new it was to see slavery as a moral failing. Stowe does an admirable job infusing the storyline with historical context in such a way that feels almost prescient that this book would continue to be important for hundreds of years.