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 had a profound effect on attitudes toward African Americans and slavery in the U.S. and is said to have "e;helped lay the groundwork for the Civil War"e;. Uncle Tom's Cabin is dominated by a single theme: the evil and immorality of slavery. While Stowe weaves o...