A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin
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A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin is Harriet Beecher Stowe’s nonfiction companion volume to her novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin, compiling documents and testimonies to defend the book’s portrayal of slavery as factually accurate.
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| Label | Occurrences |
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| A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
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Target entity: A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin Context triple: [Harriet Beecher Stowe, wrote, A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin]
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
Uncle Tom's Cabin is an 1852 anti-slavery novel that powerfully influenced public opinion in the United States and abroad in the years leading up to the American Civil War.
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B.
Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp
"Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp" is an 1856 anti-slavery novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe that explores resistance to slavery through the story of fugitive slaves living in the Great Dismal Swamp.
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C.
Harriet
Harriet is the given name of Harriet Beecher Stowe, the 19th-century American author best known for writing the anti-slavery novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin."
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D.
My Bondage and My Freedom
My Bondage and My Freedom is an 1855 autobiographical slave narrative by Frederick Douglass that expands on his earlier life story to offer a powerful critique of American slavery and racism.
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E.
Life and Times of Frederick Douglass
Life and Times of Frederick Douglass is the third and most comprehensive autobiography of the famed abolitionist and orator, chronicling his life from enslavement through his later political and diplomatic career.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin Target entity description: A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin is Harriet Beecher Stowe’s nonfiction companion volume to her novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin, compiling documents and testimonies to defend the book’s portrayal of slavery as factually accurate.
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A.
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Uncle Tom's Cabin is an 1852 anti-slavery novel that powerfully influenced public opinion in the United States and abroad in the years leading up to the American Civil War.
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B.
Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp
"Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp" is an 1856 anti-slavery novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe that explores resistance to slavery through the story of fugitive slaves living in the Great Dismal Swamp.
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C.
Harriet
Harriet is the given name of Harriet Beecher Stowe, the 19th-century American author best known for writing the anti-slavery novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin."
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D.
My Bondage and My Freedom
My Bondage and My Freedom is an 1855 autobiographical slave narrative by Frederick Douglass that expands on his earlier life story to offer a powerful critique of American slavery and racism.
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E.
Life and Times of Frederick Douglass
Life and Times of Frederick Douglass is the third and most comprehensive autobiography of the famed abolitionist and orator, chronicling his life from enslavement through his later political and diplomatic career.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
companion volume
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nonfiction book ⓘ |
| addresses | criticisms of Uncle Tom's Cabin ⓘ |
| aimsTo | prove that incidents in Uncle Tom's Cabin were based on real events ⓘ |
| author | Harriet Beecher Stowe ⓘ |
| basedOn | Uncle Tom's Cabin ⓘ |
| contains |
case studies of enslaved people
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court records ⓘ legal documents ⓘ letters ⓘ newspaper reports ⓘ personal testimonies ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| genre |
abolitionist literature
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slave narrative documentation ⓘ |
| hasAuthorGender | female ⓘ |
| hasForm | book ⓘ |
| hasMainTheme |
Christian ethics and slavery
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family separation under slavery ⓘ legal framework of slavery ⓘ moral condemnation of slavery ⓘ violence against enslaved people ⓘ |
| historicalContext | pre–American Civil War era ⓘ |
| influencedBy | Uncle Tom's Cabin ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | 19th-century American literature ⓘ |
| mediaType | print ⓘ |
| movement | American abolitionist movement ⓘ |
| nonfictionType | documentary ⓘ |
| notableFor |
apologetic defense of a novel's realism
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extensive documentation of slavery cases ⓘ |
| placeOfPublication |
Boston, Massachusetts
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surface form:
Boston
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| publicationDecade | 1850s ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1853 ⓘ |
| publisher |
John P. Jewett & Company
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surface form:
Jewett, Proctor & Worthington
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| purpose |
defend factual accuracy of Uncle Tom's Cabin
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document realities of American slavery ⓘ |
| relatedWork | Uncle Tom's Cabin ⓘ |
| relation | companion to the novel Uncle Tom's Cabin ⓘ |
| structure | chapters organized by themes and cases ⓘ |
| subject |
African American slavery
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abolitionism ⓘ fugitive slave laws ⓘ plantation life ⓘ religion and slavery ⓘ slavery in the United States ⓘ |
| targetAudience |
Northern American readers
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critics of Uncle Tom's Cabin ⓘ |
| timePeriodDescribed | antebellum United States ⓘ |
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Subject: A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin Description of subject: A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin is Harriet Beecher Stowe’s nonfiction companion volume to her novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin, compiling documents and testimonies to defend the book’s portrayal of slavery as factually accurate.
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subject surface form:
Harriet Beecher Stowe