{"product_id":"uncle-toms-cabin","title":"La Case de l’oncle Tom","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat does kindness mean when a debt can tear a family apart?\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn a Kentucky farm, Mr. Shelby needs to pay his debts, and other people's lives become his bargaining chips. Tom, a kind, devout man, is sold away from his wife and children. Eliza Harris takes her small son, Harry, and runs north rather than let him be sold.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe follows these divided paths through a world of traders, families, preachers and children. In New Orleans, Augustine St. Clare sees slavery's wrong but fails to act. Through him and others, Stowe asks whether sympathy means anything without responsibility—and whether any family is safe under slavery.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eWhat you'll discover\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eA mother's urgent choice\u003c\/strong\u003e – Follow Eliza toward the Ohio River as she struggles to keep her child beside her.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eTom's steady faith\u003c\/strong\u003e – Meet a man who holds to his beliefs while slavery separates him from those he loves.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eKindness without protection\u003c\/strong\u003e – See why a kind owner offers no lasting safety when the law permits people to be sold.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eA household of contradictions\u003c\/strong\u003e – Enter the St. Clare home, where affection, prejudice and inaction reveal the distance between feeling and doing.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eFiction that confronts\u003c\/strong\u003e – Experience Stowe's blend of adventure, melodrama and direct appeal as she challenges readers to examine their responsibilities.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003ePerfect for readers who want to understand American arguments over slavery and explore how fiction can move public opinion.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOpen the first page and enter a Kentucky parlor where one debt puts two families at risk.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Library of Alexandria Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":59534645068124,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1027\/9442\/8764\/files\/00167_en_ebook-front_c09.jpg?v=1792174999","url":"https:\/\/libraryofalexandria.com\/fr\/products\/la-case-de-loncle-tom","provider":"The Library of Alexandria","version":"1.0","type":"link"}