Uncle Tom's cabin
Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly, is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. Published in 1852, the novel "helped lay the groundwork for the Civil War", according to Will Kaufman. Stowe, a Connecticut-born teacher at the Hartford Female Seminary and an active abolitionist, featured the character of Uncle Tom, a long-suffering black slave around whom the stories of other characters revolve.
The sentimental novel depicts the reality of slavery while also asserting that Christian love can overcome something as destructive as the enslavement of fellow human beings.
Uncle Tom's Cabin was first published as a footnote in a newspaper, and when it became a book, it sold millions of copies, not only in the United States but all over the world, and for years plays based on it, Performed on the stage of theatres around the world. President Abraham Lincoln was told in a meeting, "So you are the little lady who caused the great war (the American Civil War)". Because the Civil War began nine years after the book was published, some consider the publication of the novel to be the most controversial event in the history of novel writing.
"This novel is one of the greatest products of the human mind," Tolstoy praised after reading the book.
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