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Summary Of Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stoowe

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An anti-slavery novel written by Harriet Beecher Stowe.The novel sold 300,000 copies within the first three months and was so widely read that when President Abraham Lincoln met Stowe in 1862, he told her, “So this is the little lady who made this big war.” Stowe wrote the novel in reaction to the fugitive slave laws. It had a major influence on the way the American public viewed slavery. The book was written right before the civil war and written to show how bad the southerners treated their slaves.The story showed the reality of slaves and that they were actually people and deserved to be treated that way, increasing the sectionalism between North and South over the issue of slavery. Uncle Tom’s Cabin was published in 1852 and helped popularize
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