Uncle Tom's Cabin: or Life Among the Lowly; with Hammatt Billings' 1st ed. illustrations & notes from a later ed. (Aziloth Books)

Uncle Tom's Cabin - the bestselling novel of the 19^th century - was instrumental in exposing the brutal reality of African American slavery and played a prominent role in its abolition.

Its author, Harriet Beecher Stowe was a stalwart Christian and committed abolitionist. In violation of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, which made it illegal for anyone in the United States to offer aid or assistance to a runaway slave, she and her husband were part of the Underground Railroad which helped e...