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(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.) STOWE, HARRIET BEECHER. Uncle Tom's Cabin. A partial run of 18 issues of the National Era, printing Chapters 1 through 18 in 18 weekly numbers of Volume V for 1851. Elephant folio; original boards present but detached; some foxing and discoloration to the text. Washington, D.C., 1851
the first appearance of stowe's landmark anti-slavery novel. Stowe wrote Gamaliel Bradley, the editor of the National Era, early in 1851, offering him a story that she said might run as many as a three or four installments. But the response to the first several chapters was such that she continued to provide material that finally came to 44 weekly installments from 5 June 1851 to 1 April 1852. The National Era had a subscribership of approximately 15,000 before Uncle Tom's appearance, and 19,000 when the last part appeared. A deal had already been struck with Jewett, the Boston publisher, and the first copies of the book version of Uncle Tom began to appear on the 18th of March of 1852. There are considerable textual differences in the final book form of the work.
