Uncle Tom's Cabin

This book was not, strictly speaking, on the inventory of books to be read although it was on the shelves.  Since it was a paperback copy purchased by my daughter I didn't include it in my library but rather in hers.  Still, it's a classic and at a certain point I felt compelled to take it on especially since my mother had been reading the book in the year before she died.

This is a truly remarkable book!  It was very readable, with a good story line, plenty of colorful characters and a lot of dialogue in dialect.  I never expected it to be easy reading but had anticipated more of a stern and preachy tract about the evils of slavery with a lot of dusty description and antiquated language.  It was instead, an exhortation to a Christian nation to think about the injustices of enslaving the African, the inconsistency of slavery with the Christian ethic.