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1. Introduction Eric J. Sundquist; 2. Strategies of blackcharacterization in Uncle Tom's Cabin and the early Afro-American novelRichard Yarborough; 3. Doing it herself: Uncle Tom's Cabin and woman'srole in the slavery crisis Jean Fagan Yellin; 4. Gothic imagination andsocial reform: the haunted houses of Lyman Beecher, Henry Ward Beecher,and Harriet Beecher Stowe Karen Halttunen; 5. Sharing the thunder: theliterary exchanges of Harriet Beecher Stowe, Henry Bibb, and FrederickDouglass Robert B. Stepto; 6. Stowe's dream of the mother-saviour:Uncle Tom's Cabin and American women writers before the 1920s ElizabethAmmons.