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A Key To Uncle Tom's Cabin

Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811 - 1896)

After the publication of Uncle Tom’s Cabin, which many claim sparked off the Civil War that put an end to legalized slavery in America, there was a great outcry that Stowe had blown her fictional story out of all proportion to the facts. She was viewed by some as an irresponsible monster. Stowe defended herself by painstakingly publishing this Key, describing the actual people, incidents, statutes, court cases, news articles, advertisements, and published facts from whence she drew her material. She didn’t make anything up! Additionally, throughout this key, Stowe vents her own very strong opinions on the shameful practice of slavery, and examines, especially in Part IV, the failure of organized Christendom in both America and Europe to put a stop to the barbarity. "We must repudiate, with determined severity, the blasphemous doctrine of property in human beings." She and her famous brother, Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, were very active in the Underground Railroad, raising money and endangering themselves to save countless lives.

Read by Multiple Readers

Running Time: 26:57:21 in 27 Audio CDs

1 01. 1.1 – PART I, CHAPTER I – Preface and Introduction - 06:29
2 02. 1.2 – Haley - 18:56
3 03. 1.3 – Mr. and Mrs. Shelby - 29:05
4 04. 1.4 – George Harris - 50:46
5 05. 1.5 – Eliza - 07:57
6 06. 1.6 – Uncle Tom - 43:53
7 07. 1.7 – Miss Ophelia - 17:11
8 08. 1.8 – Marie St. Clare - 11:37
9 09. 1.9 – St. Clare - 24:42
10 10. 1.10 – Legree - 49:58
11 11. 1.11 – Select Incidents of Lawful Trade - 22:12
12 12. 1.12 – Topsy - 24:03
13 13. 1.13 – The Quakers - 41:59
14 14. 1.14 – Spirit of St. Clare - 54:11
15 15. 2.1 – PART II, CHAPTER I - 25:39
16 16. 2.2 – What is Slavery? - 56:23
17 17. 2.3 – Souther v. The Commonwealth, the ne plus ultra of Legal Humanity - 21:25
18 18. 2.4 – Protective Statutes - 26:13
19 19. 2.5 – Protective Acts of South Carolina and Louisiana.—The Iron Collar of Louisiana and North... - 18:38
20 20. 2.6 – Protective Acts with regard to Food and Raiment, Labor, etc. - 18:14
21 21. 2.7 – The Execution of Justice - 45:50
22 22. 2.8 – The Good Old Times - 11:44
23 23. 2.9 – Moderate Correction and Accidental Death. – State v. Castleman - 18:40
24 24. 2.10 – Principles established. – State v. Legree; a Case not in the Books - 05:07
25 25. 2.11 – The Triumph of Justice over Law - 22:11
26 26. 2.12 – A Comparison of the Roman Law of Slavery with the American - 18:40
27 27. 2.13 – The Men better than their Laws - 33:51
28 28. 2.14 – The Hebrew Slave-law compared with the American Slave-law - 32:34
29 29. 2.15 – Slavery is Despotism - 18:24
30 30. 3.1 – PART III. CHAPTER I – Does Public Opinion protect the Slave? - 29:32
31 31. 3.2 – Public Opinion formed by Education - 25:42
32 32. 3.3.1 – Separation of Families - Part 1 - 24:58
33 33. 3.3.2 – Separation of Families - Part 2 - 38:03
34 34. 3.4.1 – The Slave-trade - 30:35
35 35. 3.4.2 The Slave-trade, Part 2 - 23:20
36 36. 3.5 – Select Incidents of Lawful Trade; or, Facts stranger than Fiction - 32:56
37 37. 3.6.1 – The Edmondson Family, Part 1 - 41:33
38 38. 3.6.2 – The Edmondson Family, Part 2 - 36:06
39 39. 3.7 – Emily Russell - 17:20
40 40. 3.8 – Kidnapping - 18:03
41 41. 3.9 – Slaves as they are, on Testimony of Owners - 53:43
42 42. 3.10.1 – Poor White Trash - 28:03
43 43. 3.10.2 Poor White Trash, Part 2 - 28:25
44 44. 4.1.1 – PART IV, CHAPTER I – Influence of the American Church on Slavery, Part 1 - 33:23
45 45. 4.1.2 – Influence of the American Church on Slavery, Part 2 - 37:27
46 46. 4.2.1 – American Church and Slavery, Part 1 - 38:01
47 47. 4.2.2 – American Church and Slavery, Part 2 - 36:24
48 48. 4.2.3 – American Church and Slavery, Part 3 - 49:40
49 49. 4.3 – Martyrdom - 33:41
50 50. 4.4 – Servitude in the Primitive Church compared with American Slavery - 28:43
51 51. 4.5 – Teachings and Condition of the Apostles - 08:29
52 52. 4.6 – Apostolic Teaching on Emancipation - 07:04
53 53. 4.7 – Abolition of Slavery by Christianity - 21:28
54 54. 4.8 – Justice and Equity versus Slavery - 16:42
55 55. 4.9 – Is the System of Religion which is taught the Slave the Gospel? - 42:01
56 56. 4.10 – What is to be done? - 32:49
57 57. APPENDIX - 26:34


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