Table of Contents:
- The afterlife of a book
- Uncle Tom's Cabin in the national era: recasting sentimental images
- Imagining black literacy: early abolitionist texts and Stowe's rhetoric of containment
- Legitimizing fiction: protocols of reading in Uncle Tom's Cabin
- Beyond piety and social conscience: Uncle Tom's Cabin as an antebellum children's book
- Sentiment without tears: Uncle Tom's Cabin as history in the wake of The Civil War
- Imagining the past as the future: illustrating Uncle Tom's Cabin for the 1890s
- Sparing the white child: the lessons of Uncle Tom's Cabin for children in an age of segregation
- Devouring Uncle Tom's Cabin: black readers between Plessy vs. Ferguson and Brown vs. Board of education.
