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The Annotated Uncle Tom’s Cabin
By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Edited, with an introduction and notes by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Hollis Robbins
Norton, 480 pages, $39.95
Abraham Lincoln said that Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote the book that started the Civil War by galvanizing opposition to slavery and James Baldwin attacked the book’s sentimentality in 1949. But now the classic has been given new meaning with this beautiful volume. A fabulous set of images–posters, paintings, prints–are included, but what gives the book real significance is its wide format, replete with engaging explanatory notes that impart new meaning to the original text.
