Uncle Tom's Cabin

Uncle Tom's Cabin is a book written by Harriet Beecher Stowe. She was dismayed by the passage of the Fugitive Slave Law, she was determined to awaken the North to the wickedness of slaveryby telling of its inhumanities such as the splitting of families. Her popular book relied on imagery and pathos. No other novel in American history can be compared with it as a political force. When she met Lincoln, he remarked, " so you are the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war." in regaurdes to the civil war. Book disliked in South, but loved by North. Also popular in Britain and France. 1852.
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