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| Preface | |
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| A Note on the Text | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| The Text of Uncle Tom's Cabin | |
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| First-edition title page | |
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| Preface | |
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| Table of Contents | |
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| List of Illustrations | |
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| Uncle Tom's Cabin | |
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| Backgrounds and Contexts | |
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| Map: The Eastern United States in the Antebellum Period | |
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| Slave Sale Announcements | |
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| Escaped Slave Advertisements | |
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| Abolition Posters | |
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| Visual Records of Torture | |
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| J. Hector St. John de Cr�vecoeur • [A Visitor's Description of Slavery's Atrocity] | |
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| David Walker • [from Appeal, In Four Articles] | |
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| Josiah Henson • Life of Josiah Henson | |
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| Solomon Northup • A Slave Auction Described by a Slave, 1841 | |
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| Henrietta King • [A Freeperson's Memory of Slavery's Horror] | |
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| Harriet Jacobs • The Trials of Girlhood | |
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| William Wells Brown • Another Kidnapping, 1844 | |
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| • The Flight of Ellen and William Craft, 1849 | |
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| Harriet Beecher Stowe • Letter to the Abolitionist Eliza Cabot Follen | |
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| • From A Key to "Uncle Tom's Cabin" | |
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| Uncle Tom | |
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| The Execution of Justice | |
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| • Appeal to the Women of the Free States | |
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| Martin Delany • from Blake; or, The Huts of America | |
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| George M. Frederickson • Uncle Tom and the Anglo-Saxons: Romantic Racialism in the North | |
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| George Cruikshank • Illustration: Tom reading his Bible | |
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| • Illustration: The poor bleeding heart | |
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| • Illustration: Emmeline about to be sold to the highest bidder | |
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| Thomas F. Gosset • Anti-Uncle Tom Literature | |
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| Mary C. Henderson • [Tom Shows] | |
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| Tom-Show Poster | |
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| Criticism | |
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| Nineteenth-Century Reviews and Reception | |
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| George Sand • Review of Uncle Tom's Cabin | |
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| William G. Allen • [About Uncle Tom's Cabin] | |
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| Ethiop • Review of Uncle Tom's Cabin | |
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| George F. Holmes • Review of Uncle Tom's Cabin | |
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| Anonymous • Review of Uncle Tom's Cabin | |
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| Charles Dudley Warner • [Uncle Tom's Cabin a Half Century Later] | |
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| Frances Ellen Watkins [Harper] • Eliza Harris | |
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| Helen Gray Cone • [Harriet Beecher Stowe and American Women Writers] | |
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| Paul Laurence Dunbar • Harriet Beecher Stowe | |
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| G. Grant Williams • Reminiscence of the Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe and Her Family | |
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| Modern Critical Views | |
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| James Baldwin • Everybody's Protest Novel | |
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| Jane P. Tompkins • Sentimental Power: Uncle Tom's Cabin and the Politics of Literary History | |
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| Robert S. Levine • Uncle Tom's Cabin in Frederick Douglass' Paper: An Analysis of Reception | |
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| Sophia Cantave • Who Gets to Create the Lasting Images? The Problem of Black Representation in Uncle Tom's Cabin | |
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| Susan M. Ryan • Charity Begins at Home: Stowe's Antislavery Novels and the Forms of Benevolent Citizenship | |
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| Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Chronology | |
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| A Brief Timeline of Slavery in America | |
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| Selected Bibliography | |