Uncle+Tom's+Cabin



Uncle Tom's Cabin is an anti-slavery novel written by Harriet Beecher Stowe, an abolitionist. Although it is an anti-slavery book, it often uses terms that are considered racist nowadays. It was published in 1851 and is the best-selling novel of the nineteenth century. Harriet Beecher Stowe was a teacher at the Hartford Female Academy wrote this novel as a response to the 1850 passage of the second Fugitive Slave Act. Stowe was inspired by Josiah Henson,a black slave who lived and worked on a 3,700 acre tobacco plantation in North Bethesda, Maryland. Henson escaped slavery in 1830 fleeing to the Province of Upper Canada where he helped other fugitive slaves. The story is about a slave called Tom and his many troubles. It was a very important book in helping American society to view blacks differently. Uncle Tom's Cabin is one of the most important political novels of all-time.

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