Uncle Tom's Cabin - 汤姆叔叔的小屋

“Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” Houghton Mifflin Company, 1881

Title
Uncle Tom's Cabin

Author
Harriet Beecher Stowe

Country
United States

Language
English

Genre
Novel

Published
1852 (two volumes)

“You are the little woman who caused a great war.” This is what Lincoln said in his interview with the author of Uncle Tom's Cabin, Stowe. Although there are some joking elements in this sentence, it does not affect Lincoln's confirmation that the book plays an important role on the road of American slavery liberation.

林肯在接见《汤姆叔叔的小屋》一书的作者斯托时如是说：“你是引发一场伟大战争的小女人”。虽然这句话中有一些开玩笑的成分，但这并不影响林肯肯定这本书在美国奴隶制解放的道路上发挥了重要作用。

Uncle Tom's Cabin: Life among the lowly is an anti slavery novel published by American writer Harriet Beecher Stowe in 1852. In this novel，the views on African Americans and American slavery had a profound impact and to some extent, intensified the regional conflicts that led to the American Civil War.

《汤姆叔叔的小屋：卑贱者的生活》是美国作家哈里特·比彻·斯托（斯托夫人）于1852年发表的一部反奴隶制长篇小说。这部小说中对于非裔美国人与美国奴隶制度的观点曾产生过意义深远的影响，并在某种程度上激化了导致美国内战的地区局部冲突。

Uncle Tom's cabin, the best-selling novel in the 19th century, is considered to be one of the main reasons for the rise of abolitionism in the 1850s. Later, he was made into a film by German director in 1965. It mainly tells the story of Tom, a loyal slave who went through several resales, after witnessed the tragic fate of many slaves, called on them to fight for themselves, and finally died peacefully in the failure of the slaver trader. This book strongly explains the irrationality of slavery and plays an important role in the history of American struggle for the independence of slaves.

《汤姆叔叔的小屋》这部小说身为19世纪最畅销的小说，被认为是刺激1850年代废奴主义兴起的一大原因。后在1965年被德国导演拍摄成电影，主要讲述了忠心的黑奴汤姆经历了数次转卖，见证了许多黑奴的悲惨命运后，号召他们为自己战斗，最后在奴隶贩子的失败下安然去世的故事。这本书强烈阐释了奴隶制度的不合理性，在美国争取奴隶独立的斗争历史上起到了很大的作用。

Uncle Tom's cabin is dominated by the same theme: the evils and immorality of slavery. When Stowe writes about minor themes in her writing - such as the moral authority of the mother and the possibility of salvation provided by Christianity - she emphasizes the connection between these themes and the horrors of slavery. In almost every page of the novel, Stowe actively promotes the theme of “the immorality of slavery”. Sometimes she even changes the tone of the story to preach the destructive nature of slavery.

《汤姆叔叔的小屋》的全书都被同一个主题所主宰：奴隶制度的罪恶与不道德。当斯托夫人在她的文字里写入次要的主题时——譬如母亲的道德权威以及由基督教提供拯救的可能性——她都会强调这些主题与奴隶制的恐怖之间的联系。几乎在小说的每一页里，斯托夫人都在积极推动着“奴隶制度不道德”这一主题，有些时候她甚至会改变故事叙述的口吻，以向人们“布道”奴隶制的破坏天性。通过对黑奴制度拆散他人家庭的刻画，斯托夫人用文字展现出了奴隶制度的罪恶。