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Note: Because the characters in Stowe’s writing, particularly in Uncle Tom’s Cabin, are often referenced (only) by ﬁrst name, they are alphabetized here accordingly, e.g., “Eliza Harris” rather than “Harris, Eliza,” with the exceptions being Mrs Shelby and Senator and Mrs Bird. Harriet Beecher Stowe is designated as HBS and Uncle Tom’s Cabin as UTC: Characters from UTC have individual entries; characters from other works are listed under their respective titles

abolition, abolitionism, American Colonization Society abolitionists 5, 20, (ACS) 41–42 115 American literature 16–18; gender Adams, F. C. 104–05 and 16–17; sentimentalism Adolph (UTC)48 in 16–17 Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, American Women’s Home 94 The 47, 120 Ammons, Elizabeth 122, 132 African American responses to anti-Tom novels 101, 104 Stowe 105–13, 119. See also aristocracy, Stowe’s afﬁnity for 116 Baker, Houston; Baldwin, James; Atlantic Monthly 17, 47, 74, 94, 95, Brown, William Wells; Butler, 111; impact of Stowe’s Lady Octavia; Chesnutt, Charles; Craft, Byron essay 96; James Fields’s William; Delany, Martin; editorship 60; publication site for Douglass, Frederick; DuBois, HBS’s work 19, 85; source of W. E. B.; Harper, Frances; Jacobs, income for HBS 9 Harriet; Johnson, Charles; Augustine St Clare 48, 55, 64 Morrison, Toni; Reed, Ishmael; authorship and Stowe 60 Washington, Booker T.; Webb, Mary; Williams, Sherley Anne; Bailey, Gamaliel 5, 7, 31, 33, 57 Wright, Richard Baker, Houston 113 Agnes of Sorrento 9, 85–87, 90; Agnes Baldwin, James 112, 113, 119–20, in 86; art in 86–87; Italy in 86; 121 compared to Sunny Memories of Baym, Nina 17, 100 Foreign Lands 85 Beecher, Catharine 3–4, 15, 49, 57, 92; Alexander, Robert 81–82. See also I co-authorship of American Ain’t Yo’ Uncle and UTC, Women’s Home 95; model for dramatizations of Ophelia in UTC 55; negotiating

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HBS’s UTC publishing Christian Slave, The 61, 73–76; Cassy contract 58; opponent of in 75–76; reviews of 75 suffrage 15 Christianity in Stowe See religion in Beecher, Charles 8, 10, 116 nineteenth-century culture Beecher Edward (and Mrs) 6, 32 Cincinnati 2, 4–6, 11, 21, 29, 31, 45, Beecher family 1, 5, 6, 9, 20, 23, 31, 34, 59; as “contact zone” 5; early 57, 116 writing by Stowe 58 Beecher, Henry Ward 6, 11, 22, 31–32, Civil War 10, 19 34, 38, 57 Clansman, The 103 Beecher, Lyman 3, 6, 21, 22, 23, 27, 41, Clemens, Samuel See Twain, Mark 92 Clotel; or, The President’s Belloc, Madame L. S. 114 Daughter 107–08, 109 Beloved 112 communities, utopian in Stowe 2–3, Bibb, Henry 23 Bigger Thomas 120. See also Native Craft, William 106 Son; Wright, Richard; UTC, Criswell, Robert 101, 102 masculinity and black masculinity Crusader in Crinoline 122 in biographies and biographical studies Davidson, Cathy 17, 18 of Stowe 122. See also Fields, Declaration of Sentiments 14 Annie; Hedrick, Joan; McCray, Delany, Martin 106, 108 Florine Thayer; Stowe, Charles; Dessa Rose 112 Wilson, Forrest Dickens, Charles 33, 83, 113, 115 Bird, Mrs (UTC) 15, 51–52, 75 Dixon, Thomas 103–04 Bird, Senator (UTC) 51–52 domestic literacy narrative 52–56; Birth of a Nation, The 49, 103 women authors of the genre 53 blackface in UTC 45, 77. See also min- domestic sphere and domesticity 10, strelsy and UTC, minstrelsy in 13–14; sketches by Stowe 94 Blake: or, the Huts of America 108 Douglas, Ann 35, 117, 118, 119, 132 Brent, Linda See Jacobs, Harriet Douglass, Frederick 21, 34, 42, 54, Brown, William Wells 107–08, 109 106, 107, 108, 112, 116, 122 Butler, Octavia 112 Dred 61, 66–72, 90, 96; afﬁliation with Byron, Lady 15, 84, 95–96. See also slave narrative genre 67; as Lady Byron Vindicated ;“TheTrue plantation novel 67; black male: Story of Lady Byron’s Life” agency and power 72, 108; connection to Kansas-Nebraska Calvinism in US culture 21–22, 23, Act 67; contrasted with UTC 68, 118; in Stowe’s writing 92, 93. See 72, 106; Cora Gordon 68, 70; also The Minister’s Wooing; dramatizations 72; Dred 71–72; Oldtown Folks; religion in Edward Clayton 68–71; erasure nineteenth-century culture of 68; Harry Gordon 67, 70–71; canon, literary – Stowe’s place in 12, linkage with Dred Scott v. 117 Sandford 67; Milly 69; Nina Chesnutt, Charles 47–48, 111 Gordon 67–69, 70; religion Child, Lydia Maria 16, 20, 53 in 23; Tom Gordon 67–71

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DuBois, W. E. B 112, 113 “Freeman’s Dream, The” 7 Duchess of Sutherland 9, 74 Fugitive Slave Law 6, 19, 21, 51, 52; inspiration for UTC 31, 32, 33, Eliot, George (Mary Ann Evans) 24, 67, 102 121 Furnas, J. C. 120 Eliza Harris 36, 39, 44, 45, 49, 102; dramatizations 75, 77, 79; escape Garrison, William Lloyd 20, 33 to Ohio 50–51, 52; as mulatta 56 gender and women’s issues in Ellison, Ralph 113 Stowe 15, 95–97 England and Stowe 8; HBS’s affiliation George Harris 36, 38–39, 42–43, 45; with 24; dramatizations of contrasted with Tom 39; link to UTC 75, 80; response to George Washington 52 UTC 114–16 George Shelby 36, 40, 44, 52–54; Europe and European travel 2, 8–9, dramatizations of 79; influence 24, 113, 116 of mother over 52; link to George European women writers and Washington 52; teaching Tom to Stowe 121 read 53–54 Eva (Evangeline) St Clare [little (Godey’s) Lady’s Book 29, 105 Eva] 21, 37, 44, 48, 49–50, 52, 56, Gone with the Wind 104 120; critique of 118; death of 50; Goodbye to Uncle Tom 120 dramatizations 77, 78–79, 80; Gossett, Thomas 34, 100 products inspired by 60; teaching Griffith, D. W. 103–04 Tom 54 “Everybody’s Protest Novel” 112, 113 Hale, Sarah Josepha 7, 13, 15, 29, 105 feminism, feminist criticism 117; and Harper, Frances 15, 110–11, 112 UTC 52, 118. See also Baym, Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Life 122 Nina; Davidson, Cathy; Douglas, Harry Harris 39, 45, 46, 48, 49, Ann; Fetterley, Judith; Pryse, 51 Marjorie; Tompkins, Jane Hartford 10, 11 Feminization of American Culture, Hartford Female Seminary 3, 15 The 118, 119. See also Douglas, Hawthorne, Nathaniel 17, 59, 117, Ann 119 Fern, Fanny (Sara Parton) 17 Hearth and Home 19, 95, 96 Fetterley, Judith 91, 117–18 Hedrick, Joan 122, 132 Fields, Annie 2, 59, 89, 114; Life and Henson, Josiah 61, 108, 109, 115 Letters of HBS 2, 122 Hentz, Caroline Lee 102 Fields, James 59, 94 “Heroic Slave, The” 107, 122 Flight to Canada 109 history of the Book and Uncle Tom’s Florida 2, 10–11, 87–89. See also Cabin 18–19 Palmetto Leaves Holland, Annie Jefferson 103 Footsteps of the Master 93, 94 Hooker, Isabella Beecher 10, 15, Foster, Stephen 45, 78 96 Frederick Douglass’ Paper 105, 106, House and Home Papers 9, 94; 107, 112, 120 Christopher Crowfield in 94

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housekeeping 10. See also American literary marketplace, women’s place Women’s Home, Hearth and and Stowe’s place in 17, 122 Home, House and Home Papers Maine 6, 7, 32, 34 I Ain’t Yo’ Uncle 81–82; Stowe Mandarin 10–11, 87–89. See also in 81–82; Tom in 81–82; Topsy Florida, Palmetto Leaves;travel in 81–82. See also Alexander, writing Robert; UTC, dramatizations of Marie St Clare 55, 102 Incidents in the Life of a Slave Martineau, Harriet 24, 72, 85, 121 Girl 109–10 masculinity, black; masculinity, internationalization of Stowe 122 Christian. See UTC, masculinity Iola Leroy 111 and black masculinity in Italy 85, 86. See also Agnes of Sorrento material culture and UTC 99 May, Georgiana 4, 5, 6, 11 Jacobs, Harriet (Linda Brent) 109–10, Mayflower, The 5, 29–30, 58 112 McCray, Florine Thayer 1 Jewett, John 7, 57–60; negotiations McIntosh, Maria 100, 101 with 58 Meer, Sarah 46, 75 Johnson, Charles 123 Melville, Herman 117, 119 Jones, Jacqueline 20 Men of Our Times 19 Julius, Uncle (in Charles Chesnutt’s middle class – Beecher family’s place writing) 47–48 in 24; gender roles in 13–16; Jungle, The, influence of UTC women in 49 on 97–98 Minister’s Wooing, The 10, 85, 91–92; Aaron Burr 92; connections to Key to “Uncle Tom’s Cabin”,A 23, 54, Catharine and Lyman 58, 61–66, 90, 96, 97, 105, 122; Beecher 92; critique of defense of UTC 61, 100, 101; Calvinism 23; James Marvyn 92; meaning of title’s metaphor 62; Mary Scudder 91–92; Samuel religion in 23; research Hopkins 91–92 approaches 108, 110; southern Minnie’s Sacrifice 110 characters in 102 minstrelsy 21, 44–47, 77, 79. See also Kindred 112 blackface in UTC; Meer, Sarah; UTC, minstrelsy in Lady Byron Vindicated 11, 15, 95–96, Mitchell, Margaret 104 97 moral suasion 15, 56 Lane Theological Seminary 4, 5, Morrison, Toni 107, 112, 113 6 mulatta/o characters in UTC 56. See Legree, Simon See Simon Legree also Eliza Harris; George Harris Leopard’s Spots, The 103 My Wife and I 96 letter writing 24 Liberator, The 20, 33 Native Son 112, 120 Liberia 40–43 National Era 7, 17, 18, 21, 30, 33, 41, Lincoln, Abraham 2 49, 53, 57, 76 Litchfield Academy 3 New Criticism 117

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New England 2, 5, 6, 9, 10, 11, 24, 88, Sand, George 114 120; home 89; ideal for American schoolteaching as women’s work 14 culture 27–30, 90; focus of HBS’s Sedgwick, Catharine Maria 16, 53, 83 regional writing 27–30, 93 Semicolon Club 4–5, 29–30, 59, 102 Sensational Designs 118–19. See also Ophelia (UTC) 21, 52, 54–56; sentimentalism; Tompkins, Jane dramatizations 77, 79; inability sentimentalism 16–17, 50, 51, 77–78, to save Tom 56; maternal 117, 118, 119 teacher 56; re-education/reform serialization of HBS’s writing 18 of 55 Shelby, Mrs 36, 46, 48, 52–53, 56; Oldtown Folks 10, 92; Horace Holyoke appealing qualities of 55, 102; in 93 inability to save Tom 56; Olney, James 121 influence over son George 52; ownership of Tom character and maternal teacher 56 UTC 61 Sigourney, Lydia 28, 53 Simms, William Gilmore 101, 104 Palmetto Leaves 87–89. See also Simon Legree 36, 37, 40, 49, 56, 64–65 Mandarin; Florida; travel; travel Sinclair, Upton, influence of Stowe’s writing UTC on 97–98 Pearl of Orr’s Island, The 10, 90–91; sketch, (New England) village (as genre Mara 90–91; Moses for HBS) 28, 30, 93 Pink and White Tyranny 96, 97 slavery 19–20, 66; abolitionists and plantation novel see Dred anti-slavery in Britain 115; Poganuc People 11, 23, 93; Dolly 93; inhumanity of 65; slave mothers Reverend Cushing 93–94 and HBS 31 popular culture studies of Stowe Smiley, Jane 120, 122 121 Stafford House Address 115 Pryse, Marjorie 89–90, 91 stereotypes, racial See racial essentialism; UTC, stereotypes in Rachel Halliday 15, 55, 75 Stowe, Calvin 5, 6, 9, 11, 22, 24, 32, 41, racial essentialism 19, 40, 43–44, 48, 58, 87; negotiating HBS’s 88, 89, 107 publishing contract 58; public Reed, Ishmael 109 speaking for Stowe 116; source Refugees: A Sequel to “Uncle Tom’s for Oldtown Folks 92, 93 Cabin,” The 103 Stowe, Charles 1, 25, 32, 34, 59, 122 regionalist fiction 89–94 Stowe v. Thomas 59 religion in nineteenth-century Sundquist, Eric 117 culture 21–23, 93–94; Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands 9, Calvinism 21–22, 23; Protestant 83–84, 85; Aunt E as culture 22, 43; Stowe’s works character 84; contrast with and 23 English travel writers 83 Resisting Reader, The 118. See also Fetterley, Judith teaching by Stowe home-based 15, 49; Reynier, Marguerite 114 schoolteaching 3, 10–11, 15 Riss, Arthur 43 temperance 22, 23

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Ticknor and Fields 60 Uncle Tom’s Cabin 5, 6, 15, 21, 26, 29, “Tom Mania” 114 68, 71, 75, 85, 98, 99; African Tom shows and anti-Tom shows 76, American responses to 105–13, 77, 79, 99. See also UTC, 119; appropriations of black dramatizations of culture 113; attacks on 62, 101, Tom, Uncle (UTC) 31, 36–39, 44, 47, 106; contrasted with The 48, 56, 64–65, 73, 100; Christ Adventures of Huckleberry Finn; figure 38, 50, 67, 100; comic contrasted with The Conjure exaggerations onstage 75; Woman tales 47–48; contrasted compared with Mark Twain’s with Dred 68; copyright Jim 47; contrasted with George infringement case 59; copyright, Harris 39; contrasted with international (lack of) 61; Charles Chesnutt’s Uncle cultural capital and cultural work Julius 47–48; dramatizations of 50, 60, 61; defended by of 73–74, 78, 79, 80, 81–82; Key 61; didacticism in 49; feminization of 40, 67, 107; Key dramatizations of 73–74, 76–80, defense of 64–65; learning to 81–82; European responses read from Eva (Evangeline) St 113–16; exaggerations, accused Clare 54; learning to read from of 62; feminist readings of 52, George Shelby 53; spiritualized 118; film versions of 80–81; masculinity in 38; Tom products intellectual property 61; literary and material culture 60, 99. See marketplace 18–19; masculinity also UTC, masculinity and black and black masculinity in 35–39, masculinity in 42, 120; masculinity, Tompkins, Jane 50, 118–19 Christian 38, 53; minstrelsy Topsy (UTC) 21, 42, 46, 50, 54–56; in 21, 44–47, 77, 79; mother dramatizations 77; impact on figures in 15, 23; northern Ophelia 55; Topsy products 60 responses 105; paintings travel 8–9, 24, 116. See also Europe inspired by 115; pro-colonization and European travel; Florida; stance 106; reliability and Italy; Mandarin truth of (in Key defense) 63–64; travel writing 82–89. See also Agnes of religion and 1, 23, 35; reviews Sorrento; Palmetto Leaves; Sunny of 105, 113, 114; sales of 2, 8, Memories 57, 116, 122; sentimentalism “True Story of Lady Byron’s Life, in 50, 51, 77–78, 119; The” 95–96 serialization 7, 18; southern Turning South Again 113 response texts 11, 101–05; Twain, Mark 10, 47, 96, 120, spin-offs and material culture 60, 122 99–100, 106; stereotypes in 44, 48; teacher figures in 56; “Uncle Lot” 4, 26–30 turning point in HBS’s career Uncle Tom see Tom, Uncle 7, 30, 110; women’s issues “Uncle Tomitudes” 101. See also in 16. See also blackface; anti-Tom novels; UTC, southern characters in: listed individually; response texts ministrelsy

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“Uncle Tom’s Cabin” Contrasted with and Home Papers, AKeytoUncle Buckingham Hall The Planter’s Tom’s Cabin, Lady Byron Home 101, 102 Vindicated, The Mayﬂower, Men Uncle Tom’s Children 112 of Our Times, The Minister’s Wooing, My Wife and I, Oldtown Washington, Booker T. 112, 113 Folks, Palmetto Leaves, The Pearl We and Our Neighbors 96 of Orr’s Island, Pink and White Webb, Mary 74–76. See also The Tyranny, Poganuc People, Sunny Christian Slave Memories of Foreign Lands,“The Williams, Linda 45, 81 True Story of Lady Byron’s Life,” Williams, Sherley Anne 112 “Uncle Lot,” Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Wilson, Forrest 122 We and Our Neighbors Woodhull, Victoria 15 Wright, Richard 56, 60, 112, 113, works of HBS See individual listings 120 for these titles: Agnes of Sorrento, American Women’s Home, The Yarborough, Richard 111 Christian Slave, Dred, Footsteps of Yellin, Jean 109, 122, 132 the Master,“TheFreeman’s Dream,” Hearth and Home, House Zagarell, Sandra 28