Uncle Tom's Cabin (version 2): Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Uncle Tom's Cabin (version 2), 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 Uncle Tom's Cabin (version 2) by Harriet Beecher Stowe. Read in English by Larraine Paquette. This is a deeply moving novel centered around the lives of Uncle Tom and others and which very effectively portrays the suffering caused by the practice of slavery in the American South, prior to and during the time of the Civil War. It also provides a fascinating character study of a wide variety of people, including various slave owners, families of slave owners, traders, bystanders, the slaves themselves, and participants in the underground railroad. On one hand there is the ignorance, false mindsets, indifference and even blatant cruelty and abuse on the part of some, and on the other hand there is great love and compassion and sacrifice on the part of others. This was the best-selling novel of the 19th Century and is said to have helped fuel the cause of the abolitionists. (Summary by Larraine Paquette and Wikipedia)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Uncle Tom's Cabin (version 2)
• Author credits: Harriet Beecher Stowe
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 45
• Listed recording duration: 21:02:12

Catalogue topics

• slavery
• abolition
• escape

Opening tracks: first 24 of 45

1. 01 - In Which the Reader is Introduced to a Man of Humanity — 26:33
2. 02 - The Mother — 8:40
3. 03 - The Husband and Father — 13:56
4. 04 - An Evening in Uncle Tom's Cabin — 32:20
5. 05 - Showing the Feelings of Living Property on Changing Owners — 24:35
6. 06 - Discovery — 27:04
7. 07 - The Mother's Struggle — 35:06
8. 08 - Eliza's Escape — 42:37
9. 09 - In Which It Appears That a Senator is But a Man — 44:29
10. 10 - The Property is Carried Off — 26:57
11. 11 - In Which Property Gets into an Improper State of Mind — 36:27
12. 12 - Select Incident of Lawful Trade — 46:26
13. 13 - The Quaker Settlement — 24:10
14. 14 - Evangeline — 27:07
15. 15 - Of Tom's New Master, and Various Other Matters — 44:32
16. 16 - Tom's Mistress and Her Opinions — 52:28
17. 17 - The Freeman's Defence — 43:56
18. 18 - Miss Ophelia's Experiences and Opinions — 44:34
19. 19 - Miss Ophelia's Experiences and Opinions Continued — 57:05
20. 20 - Topsy — 42:19
21. 21 - Kentuck — 13:26
22. 22 - The Grass Withereth- the Flower Fadeth — 19:29
23. 23 - Henrique — 20:23
24. 24 - Foreshadowings — 18:14

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