Based on the first American edition of 1885, this Broadview Edition includes all 174 original illustrations by E.W. Kemble. Appendices include contemporary reviews, passages deleted from the original manuscript, advertisements for the book, and a range of materials, from newspaper articles to minstrel show scripts to contemporary fiction, showing how race and slavery were depicted in the larger culture at the time.
Stephen Railton is Professor of English at the University of Virginia. He has published widely on nineteenth-century literature, particularly James Fenimore Cooper, the American Renaissance, and Mark Twain, and is the creator of major websites on Twain, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, and William Faulkner.