《汤姆叔叔的小屋》这部书，一直被公认是19世纪以来，强烈揭发美国社会种族歧视的代表作品。小说描写了不同表现和性格的黑奴，也描写了不同类型的奴隶主嘴脸。它着力刻画了接受奴隶主灌输的基督教精神、逆来顺受型的黑奴汤姆；也塑造了不甘心让奴隶主决定自己生死的具有反抗精神的黑奴，如伊丽莎和她的丈夫乔治·哈里斯。同时，也揭示了各种类型的奴隶主的内心世界和奴隶主不完全相同的表现，本书为其原版作品。

Uncle Tom"s Cabin is the rnost popular, influential and controversial book written by an American. Stowe"s rich novel passionately dramatises why the whole of America is implicated in and responsible for the sin of slavery, and resoundingly concludes that only "repentance. justice and mercy" will prevent the onset of "the wrath of Almighty God!".The novel gave such a terrific impetus to the crusade for the abolition of slavery that President Lincoln half-jokingly greeted Stowe as "the little lady" who started the great Civi War, As Keith Carabine argues in his lively and provocative Introduction. the novel immediately provoked a storm of competing and contradictory responses among Northern and Southern readers, moderate and radical abolitionist groups, blacks and women with regard to issues of form. genre, politics, religion, race and gender, that are still of great interest because they anticipate the concerns that vex and divide modern readers and critical constituencies.

AUTHOR"S PREFACE

In Which the Reader is Introduced to a Man of Humanity

The Mother

The Husband and Father

An Evening in Uncle Tom"s Cabin

Showing the Feelings of Living Property on Changing Owners

Discovery

The Mother"s Struggle

Eliza"s Escape

In Which it Appears that a Senator is but a Man

The Property is Carried Off

In Which Property Gets into an Improper State of Mind

Select Incident of Lawful Trade

The Quaker Settlement

Evangeline

Of Tom"s New Master, and Various Other Matters

Tom"s Mistress and Her Opiniom

The Free Man"s Defence

Miss Ophelia"s Experiences and Opinions

Miss Ophelia"s Experiences and Opinions (continued)

Topsy

Kentuck

"The Grass Withereth - the Flower Fadeth"

Henrique

Foreshadowings

The Little Evangelist

Death

"This is the Last of Earth"

Reunion

The Unprotected

The Slave Warehouse

The Middle Passage

Dark Places

Cassy

The Quadroon"s Story

The Tokens

Emmeline and Cassy

Liberty

The Victory

The Stratagem

The Martyr

The Young Master

An Authentic Ghost Story

Results

The Liberator

Concluding Remarks