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- A feed, not a wall of text. 49 characters, 20 places, 15 objects and 9 plot beats, each its own card with its own illustration.
- The author’s own words. 32 passages of Uncle Tom’s Cabin sit in the feed verbatim, exactly as Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote them, each with a short reading of what it is doing. The map is ours; the prose is always the book’s.
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The Uncle Tom’s Cabin feed, as it appears in your mobile
The plot of Uncle Tom’s Cabin
The story beat by beat, as Literah maps it.
- The Shelby household - the kindest slavery is still slavery
- Eliza crosses the Ohio River on the ice
- Tom is sold south and meets little Eva on the Mississippi
- Eva dies - and St. Clare's promise to free Tom dies with him
- Simon Legree buys Tom and takes him to the Red River plantation
- Cassy engineers the haunted garret escape
- Tom dies - George Shelby arrives too late to free him
- The free family: Eliza, George, and Harry reach Canada
- Stowe speaks directly - the novel as witness
The author's pen in Uncle Tom’s Cabin
The passages themselves, Harriet Beecher Stowe's own words, as Literah maps it.
- Tom's Pricech. 1
- What Right Has Hech. 3
- Uncle Tom’s Cabin Gardench. 4
- Master Sold Himch. 5
- Eliza’s Leap to the Icech. 7
- Mrs. Bird Defies the Lawch. 9
- Aunt Chloe Packs His Clothesch. 10
- Tom Follows His New Masterch. 10
- Tears on Her Baby’s Facech. 12
- Rachel's Gentle Breakfast Workch. 13
- Eva Among the Chainedch. 14
- George Harris Claims Freedomch. 17
- Tom’s First Draftch. 19
- Eva Sees the Visionch. 22
- Teaching Them To Readch. 22
- Eva Would Die For Themch. 24
- Eva’s Plea to Topsych. 25
- I Can Love Youch. 27
- I Wish I Had Your Eyesch. 27
- Legally Minech. 27
The characters of Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Who is who, as Literah maps it.
- Uncle Tommajor
- Eliza Harrismajor
- George Harrismajor
- Eva St. Claremajor
- Augustine St. Claremajor
- Miss Ophelia St. Claremajor
- Topsymajor
- Simon Legreemajor
- Cassymajor
- Harrysupporting
- Aunt Chloesupporting
- George Shelbysupporting
- Emmelinesupporting
- Mr. Shelbysupporting
- Mrs. Shelbysupporting
- Haleysupporting
The locations in Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Where it happens, as Literah maps it.
- Shelby househouse
- Shelby estate / Kentucky plantationplantation
- Uncle Tom’s cabincabin
- Harris farmfarm
- Bagging factoryfactory
- Kentucky road / pursuit roadroad
- Ohio River / ice crossingriver
- Roadside tavern / inninn
- Bird householdhousehold
- Halliday householdhousehold
- Quaker settlementsettlement
- Rocky pass / free-soil defense siterocky pass
- Riverboat / Mississippi routeriverboat
- St. Clare mansion in New Orleansmansion
The core concepts in Uncle Tom’s Cabin
What the book keeps returning to, as Literah maps it.
- Kindness cannot redeem ownership
- Family love against property law
- Christian witness against Christian hypocrisy
- Sentiment must become action
- Literacy, Bible reading, and personhood
- Resistance has more than one moral shape
- Children expose adult corruption
- Law and market invade the home
- Freedom is legal, bodily, familial, and spiritual
- Memory becomes obligation
The objects of note in Uncle Tom’s Cabin
The things that carry meaning, as Literah maps it.
- Tom’s Bible
- Tom’s hymn-book
- George Shelby’s dollar
- Tom’s letter home / slate
- Eva’s Bible
- Eva’s curl
- Eva’s small book / Topsy’s keepsake book
- Harry’s disguise / flight clothing
- Eliza’s shawl / flight bundle
- Sale papers / bills of sale
- Legree’s handcuffs / restraints
- Legree’s forced clothing for Tom
- George Harris’s disguise and papers
- George Harris’s weapons
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