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Singerman ID#supp1430

A Key to Uncle Tom’s Cabin; Presenting the Original Facts and Documents upon which the Story is Founded. Together with Corroborative Statements Verifying the Truth of the Work.

Singerman Entry

Singerman ID#supp1430

Stowe, Harriet Beecher. A Key to Uncle Tom’s Cabin; Presenting the Original Facts and Documents upon which the Story is Founded. Together with Corroborative Statements Verifying the Truth of the Work. Boston: John P. Jewett; Cleveland: Jewett, Proctor & Worthington; London: Low and Co., 1853. 262 p.

Notes

See p. 151 for the Jewish Davies of Petersburg, Va., the "great slave-dealers" who buy slaves in the summer and fall "at low prices, trim, shave, wash them, fatten them so that they may look sleek, and sell them to great profit."