Introduction / Elizabeth Ammons -- Letter to Frederick Douglass / Harriet Beecher Stowe -- Letter to William Lloyd Garrison / Harriet Beecher Stowe -- Letter to Mrs. Follen / Harriet Beecher Stowe -- Does public opinion protect the slave? / Harriet Beecher Stowe -- What is to be done? Harriet Beecher Stowe -- Everybody's protest novel / James Baldwin -- Love and death in Uncle Tom's Cabin / Leslie A. Fiedler -- Sentimental power: Uncle Tom's Cabin and the politics of literary history / Jane P. Tompkins -- Getting in the kitchen with Dinah: domestic politics in Uncle Tom's Cabin / Gillian Brown -- Sharing the thunder: the literary exchanges of Harriet Beecher Stowe, Henry Bibb, and Frederick Douglass / Robert B. Stepto -- Topsy and the end man: blackface in Uncle Tom's Cabin / Sarah Meer -- "The promiscuous housekeeping": death, transgression, and homoeroticism in Uncle Tom's Cabin / P. Gabrielle Foreman -- Who gets to create the lasting images? the problem of black representation in Uncle Tom's Cabin / Sophia Cantave -- Up to heaven's gate, down to Earth's dust: the politics of judgment in Uncle Tom's Cabin / Joshua D. Bellin -- Freeing the slaves and banishing the blacks: racism, empire, and Africa in Uncle Tom's Cabin / Elizabeth Ammons.