Series Editor's Preface 1 Introduction 2 Strategies of Black Characterization in Uncle Tom's Cabin and the Early Afro-American Novel 3 Doing It Herself:Uncle Tom's Cabin and Woman's Role in the Slavery Crisis 4 Gothic Imagination and Social Reform;The Haunted Houses of Lyman Beecher,Henry Ward Beecher,and Harriet Beecher Stowe 5 Sharing the Thunder:The Literary Exchanges of Harriet Beecher Stowe,Henry Bibb,and Frederick Douglass 6 Stowe's Dream of the Mother-Savior:Uncle Tom's Cabin and American Women Writers Before the 1920s Notes on Contributors Selected Bibliography