Uncle Tom's Cabin
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"Uncle Tom's Cabin" is an 1852 novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe that depicts the lives of enslaved people in the American South. The book became enormously influential in shaping public opinion about slavery and is considered one of the most significant works in American literature.
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- Author
- Harriet Beecher Stowe
- First published
- 1850
- Editions
- 688
- Subjects
- Master and servant, Slavery, Plantation life, Uncle Tom (Fictitious character), Fugitive slaves, Slaves, Fiction, African Americans
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Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. Published in two volumes in 1852, the novel had a profound effect on attitudes toward African Americans and slavery in the U.S., and is said to have "helped lay the groundwork for the American Civil War".
Stowe, a Connecticut-born teacher at the Hartford Female Seminary, was part of the religious Beecher family and an active abolitionist. She wrote the sentimental novel to depict the horrors of slavery while also asserting that Christian love could overcome slavery. The novel focuses on the character of Uncle Tom, a long-suffering black slave around whom the stories of the other characters revolve.
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