Thesis On Uncle Tom's Cabin

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Uncle Tom 's Cabin, written by Harriet Beecher Stowe, has had a huge impact on American literature, since it was published in 1852. This novel, the second-best selling book just after the Bible, had over 300,000 copies sold after the first year. Uncle Tom 's Cabin caused so much controversy when it was published because of its anti-slavery views. The impact of this book on the issue of slavery was very powerful that when President Lincoln met Stowe, he supposedly said, "So this is the little lady who made this big war." Today, however, many believe Stowe 's attempts to expose the horrors of slavery ended up romanticizing this horrible occurrence and was seemingly racist through the use of many racial slurs. Others argue that it started the advancement of abolishing slavery and was a turning point in history . Uncle Tom 's Cabin became so controversial that schools started to ban it because of the tension of the Civil War in the 18th century, but those times have passed and currently, students are taught about the period of slavery. While school should not ban Uncle Tom 's Cabin, the merits of teaching it are very low due to its historical inaccuracies. One of the historical inaccuracies was that character Uncle Tom was portrayed in a way that seemed to be too unrealistic. Throughout the book, he is characterized as a godly Christian man who obeys his master(s) with complete devotion. When faced with death, he tells the cruel Simon Legree that he would "give ye my hearts