Uncle Tom's Cabin

Uncle Tom's Cabin was the book that Abraham Lincoln reportedly claimed started the Civil War. Uncle Tom’s Cabin was published in 1851 in an anti-slavery newspaper called the National Era, it was written by Harriet Beecher Stowe, who lived in the south, the main audience was slavery abolitionists and slavery supporters throughout the world, especially Americans , the purpose serve as a propaganda for the abolitionist cause ; during this period of time slavery was common and it was written to create an impact about the bad treatment of slaves and how racism was immensely wrong, the tone is very serious and it creates sympathy towards the African Americans, the book follows the journeys of two slaves Tom and Eliza, to find their freedom. Uncle Tom's Cabin, was one of the most widely read and profoundly influential works of the nineteenth century. The Author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin was a woman called Harriet Beecher Stowe. She was born into a prominent family of preachers. Her father, Lyman Beecher, was a minister and was one of the best well-known of his generation. Her mother died when she was only four years old. In 1836 she married Calvin Ellis Stowe, and together they had seven children. She published stories, essays, and a long list of novels, including Old town Folks and Dred, but none of these matched Uncle Tom’s Cabin in terms of popularity. Harriet Beecher Stowe achieved national fame for her anti-slavery novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin, which blew the flames of sectionalism before the Civil War. Stowe died in Hartford, Connecticut, on July 6, 1896. The controversy behind Uncle Tom’s Cabin is that it was written by someone who lived in the north, and had never even visited the south to see slavery first hand. Uncle Tom’s Cabin was written for America, abolitionists and slavery supporters so that they could read about the evils of slavery, but it also reached a worldwide audience.

Uncle Tom’s Cabin is an anti–slavery novel Published in 1852; the