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  1. Apr 16, 2024 · Uncle Tom’s Cabin is an abolitionist novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe that was published in serialized form in the United States in 1851–52 and in book form in 1852. It achieved wide-reaching popularity, particularly among white Northern readers, through its vivid dramatization of the experience of slavery.

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  2. A Key to 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 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".

  3. Dec 2, 2019 · Uncle Tom's Cabin, published in The National Era (1851) In 1852, the serial was published as a two-volume book. Uncle Tom’s Cabin was a runaway best-seller, selling 10,000 copies in the United States in its first week; 300,000 in the first year; and in Great Britain, 1.5 million copies in one year. In the 19th century, the only book to ...

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  5. George Shelby returns to the Kentucky farm, where, after his father’s death, he sets all the slaves free in honor of Tom’s memory. He urges them to think on Tom’s sacrifice every time they look at his cabin and to lead a pious Christian life, just as Tom did. A short summary of Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom’s Cabin.

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  6. Nov 12, 2009 · Harriet Beecher Stowe was a 19th century teacher, abolitionist and writer, best known for exposing the horrors of slavery in her seminal novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin.

  7. Uncle Tom’s Cabin, written by Harriet Beecher Stowe and published in 1852, is an abolitionist novel that follows Uncle Tom, a devout and kind-hearted enslaved man. The story depicts the brutalities of slavery and its impact on families, while also portraying Tom’s resilience and Christian faith. The novel was inspired by books about the ...

  8. Harriet Beecher Stowe lost a child in infancy, an experience that she said made her empathize with the losses suffered by slave mothers whose children were sold. The reaction was incredible. Uncle Tom's Cabin sold 300,000 copies in the North alone. The Fugitive Slave Law, passed in 1850, could hardly be enforced by any of Stowe's readers.

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