A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin Presenting the original facts and documents upon which the story is founded. Together with corroborative statements verifying the truth of the work.

In the first place, have any of these opinions ever been treated in the church as heresies, and the teachers of them been subjected to the censures with which it is thought prop...

Milly Edmondson is an aged woman, now upwards of seventy. She has received the slave’s inheritance of entire ignorance. She cannot read a letter of a book, nor write her own nam...

There is no country in the world where the religious influence has a greater ascendency than in America. There is no country where the clergy are more powerful. This is the more...

“What must the difference be,” said Dr. Worthington, with startling energy, “between Isabel and her servants! To _her_ it is loss of position, fortune, the fair hopes of life, p...

The character of George Harris has been represented as overdrawn, both as respects personal qualities and general intelligence. It has been said, too, that so many afflictive in...

What is it, according to the definition of law-books and of legal interpreters? “A slave,” says the law of Louisiana, “is one who is in the power of a master, to whom he belongs...

The general tone of the press and of the community in the slave states, so far as it has been made known at the North, has been loudly condemnatory of the representations of “Un...

The thing to be done, of which I shall chiefly speak, is that the whole American church, of all denominations, should unitedly come up, not _in form_, but _in fact_, to the nobl...

What is it that constitutes the vital force of the institution of slavery in this country? Slavery, being an unnatural and unhealthful condition of society, being a most wastefu...

The investigation into the actual condition of the slave population at the South is beset with many difficulties. So many things are said _pro_ and _con_,—so many said in one co...

As St. Clare and the Shelbys are the representatives of one class of masters, so Legree is the representative of another; and, as all good masters are not as enlightened, as gen...

Having given some account of what sort of statutes are to be found on the law-books of slavery, the reader will hardly be satisfied without knowing what sort of trials are held...

The ladies of England, in their letter to the ladies of America, spoke in particular of the denial of the gospel to the slave. This has been indignantly resented in this country...

The character of Uncle Tom has been objected to as improbable; and yet the writer has received more confirmations of that character, and from a greater variety of sources, than...

When the public sentiment of Europe speaks in tones of indignation of the system of American slavery, the common reply has been, “_Look at your own lower classes_.” The apologis...

The writer’s sketch of the character of this people has been drawn from personal observation. There are several settlements of these people in Ohio, and the manner of living, th...

At the time when the Methodist and Presbyterian Churches passed the anti-slavery resolutions which we have recorded, the system of slavery could probably have been extirpated by...

It was the design of the writer, in delineating the domestic arrangements of Mr. and Mrs. Shelby, to show a picture of the fairest side of slave-life, where easy indulgence and...

Judgment is turned away backward, And Justice standeth afar off; For Truth is fallen in the street, And Equity cannot enter. Yea, Truth faileth; And HE THAT DEPARTETH FROM EVIL...

The atrocious and sacrilegious system of breeding human beings for sale, and trading them like cattle in the market, fails to produce the impression on the mind that it ought to...

It is the standing claim of those professors of religion at the South who support slavery that they are pursuing the same course in relation to it that Christ and his apostles d...

The inquiry now arises, What kind of slavery was it that was permitted among the Hebrews? for in different nations very different systems have been called by the general name of...

The New York _Courier and Enquirer_ of November 5th contained an article which has been quite valuable to the author, as summing up, in a clear, concise and intelligible form, t...

Nothing more frequently strikes the eye, in running over judicial proceedings in the courts of slave states, than announcements of the utter inutility of the law to rectify some...

But the question now occurs, Are there not protective statutes, the avowed object of which is the protection of the life and limb of the slave? We answer, there are; and these p...

It is with pleasure that we turn from the dark picture just presented, to the character of the generous and noble-hearted St. Clare, wherein the fairest picture of our Southern...

And yet, in the face of such laws and decisions as these, Mrs. Stowe winds up a long series of cruelties upon her other black personages, by causing her faultless hero, Tom, to...

Rev. Charles C. Jones, in his interesting work on the Religious Instruction of Negroes, has a passage which so peculiarly describes that influence of public opinion which we hav...

Let us look at these acknowledged facts. At the time of the coming of Christ, slavery extended over the whole civilized world. Captives in war were uniformly made slaves, and, a...

Topsy stands as the representative of a large class of the children who are growing up under the institution of slavery,—quick, active, subtle and ingenious, apparently utterly...

The author remarks that the record of the following trial was read by her a little time before writing the account of the death of Uncle Tom. The shocking particulars haunted he...

One of the first sketches presented to view is an account of the separation of a very old, decrepit negro woman from her young son, by a sheriff’s sale. The writer is sorry to s...

The principle which declares that one human being may lawfully hold another as property leads directly to the trade in human beings; and that trade has, among its other horrible...

Having been obliged to record so many trials in which justice has been turned away backward by the hand of law, and equity and common humanity have been kept out by the bolt and...

In South Carolina, the act of 1740 punished the wilful, deliberate murder of a slave by disfranchisement, and by a fine of seven hundred pounds current money, or, in default of...

In the very first chapter of the book we encounter the character of the negro-trader, Mr. Haley. His name stands at the head of this chapter as the representative of all the dif...

Miss Ophelia stands as the representative of a numerous class of the very best of Northern people; to whom, perhaps, if our Lord should again address his churches a letter, as h...

Having finished the consideration of the laws which protect the life and limb of the slave, the reader may feel a curiosity to know something of the provisions by which he is pr...

The writer has expressed the opinion that the American law of slavery, taken throughout, is a more severe one than that of any other civilized nation, ancient or modern, if we e...

From what has been said in the last chapter, it is presumed that it will appear that the Christian church of America by no means occupies that position, with regard to slavery,...

Among those unfortunates guilty of loving freedom too well, was a beautiful young quadroon girl, named Emily Russell, whose mother is now living in New York. The writer has seen...

his life cheaply, for the sake of being a martyr. This would be an unholy motive. It is his duty to preserve it until the last moment. So Christ enjoins. It is no mark of coward...

The only means of understanding precisely what a civil institution is are an examination of the laws which regulate it. In different ages and nations, very different things have...

The author takes no pleasure in presenting to her readers the shocking details of the following case. But it seems necessary to exhibit what were the actual workings of the anci...

Marie St. Clare is the type of a class of women not peculiar to any latitude, nor any condition of society. She may be found in England or in America. In the northern free state...

Work of the church in America.—Feelings of Christians in all other countries.—Eradication of caste, and repeal of sinful laws against free colored people.—Various duties and mea...

But why did not the apostles preach against the legal relation of slavery, and seek its overthrow in the state? This question is often argued as if the apostles were in the same...

While the writer was travelling in Kentucky, many years ago, she attended church in a small country town. While there, her attention was called to a beautiful quadroon girl, who...

But it may still be said that the apostles might have commanded Christian masters to perform the act of legal emancipation in all cases. Certainly they might, and it is quite ev...

From a review of all the legal cases which have hitherto been presented, and of the principles established in the judicial decisions upon them, the following facts must be appar...

power was enabled to carry out a much more efficient system of popular education than we ever have succeeded in carrying out in America. He districted his kingdom in the most th...

At different times, doubt has been expressed whether the representations of “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” are a fair representation of slavery as it at present exists. This work, more, pe...

Definitions from civil code of Louisiana.—From laws of South Carolina.—Decision of Judge Ruffin.—Involve absolute despotism.—Do not admit of humane decisions.—Designed only for...

No test of character required in a master.—Mr. Dickey’s account in “Slavery as It Is.”—“Working up slaves.”—Extracts from Mr. Weld’s book.—Agricultural society’s testimony.—Jame...

Trials for heresy.—Course as to slavery heresies.—Course of the Methodist Church.—Course of the Presbyterian Church, before the division.—Course of the Old School body.—Course o...

Separation of an aged mother from her son authenticated.—Selling of the woman to the trader authenticated.—Parting the infant from the mother verified.—Suicide of slaves from gr...

Alfred and Augustine St. Clare representatives of two classes of men.—Letter of Patrick Henry.—Southern men reproving Northern men.—Mr. Mitchell, of Tennessee.—John Randolph of...

Similar case.—Old Virginia family servant.—Bishop Meade’s remarks.—Judge Upshur’s servant.—Instance in Brunswick, Me.—History of Josiah Henson.—Uncle Tom’s vision.—Similar facts...

Slavery degrades the poor whites.—Causes and process.—Materials for mobs.—Fierce for slavery.—Influence of slavery on education.—Emigration from slave states.—N. B. Watson adver...

Advertisements.—Lewis Clark.—Mrs. Banton.—Story of Lewis’ sister.—Mr. Nelson’s story.—Frederick Douglas.—Josiah Henson’s account of the sale of his mother and her children.—Rece...

Old Milly and her household.—Liberty and equality.—The schooner Pearl.—An American slave-ship.—Capture of fugitives.—Indignation.—Captives imprisoned.—Voyage to New Orleans and...