STOWE, Harriet Beecher (1811-1896). A Key to Uncle Tom?s Cabin; Presenting the original facts and documents upon which the story is founded. Boston and Cleveland: John P. Jewett & Company; Jewett, Proctor & Worthington, 1853. FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE with ?Hobart & Robins? imprint on copyright. ?The success of Uncle Tom?s Cabin made Stowe an international celebrity and a focus of antislavery sentiment. In 1853 she published A Key to Uncle Tom?s Cabin, an antislavery polemic written to answer critics who complained that her novel had exaggerated the brutalities of slavery? (ANB). BAL 19359.