A Key To Uncle Tom's Cabin: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

A Key To Uncle Tom's Cabin, credited to Harriet Beecher Stowe, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of A Key To Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe. Read in English by Michele Fry; pmstrahm; DrPGould; Angelique G. Campbell; William Allan Jones; Kathrine Engan; Colleen McMahon; Kathleen Moore; GentleJim; Larry Wilson 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. - Summary by Michele Fry

Recording facts

• Recording title: A Key To Uncle Tom's Cabin
• Author credits: Harriet Beecher Stowe
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 57
• Listed recording duration: 26:57:21

Catalogue topics

• slavery
• civil war
• Uncle Tom's cabin
• ophelia
• simon legree

Opening tracks: first 24 of 57

1. 01. 1.1 – PART I, CHAPTER I – Preface and Introduction — 6:29
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 — 7:57
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 Carolina — 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 — 5:07

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