696057 Advertisement for the book Life at the South, or "Uncle Tom\'s Cabin" as it is!, 1st July 1852 (litho) by American School, (19th century); 28.2x21.1 cm; Gilder Lehrman Collection, New York, USA; (add.info.: Advertisement for Smith\'s book by Franklin Whipple. Initialled postscript indicates that Whipple is ready to fill orders. The book was written by W. L. G. Smith. Displays the book\'s table of contents. Notes the book contains 500 pages with ten illustrations and will cost .50. Smith\'s goal is to depict "...the condition of the Slave in his rude but comfortable cabin... showing that, in the case of the slave at least, contentment bestows more happiness than freedom: and at the same time to represent, as it is, a class of people, viz: The Planter, to whom justice has seldom been done." Uncle Tom\'s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896). Smith, W. L. G. (William L. G.) (1814-1878) Whipple, Franklin (fl. 1852) ); 穢 Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History ; American, out of copyright.