On November 25, 1862, upon meeting famous anti-slavery novel author Harriet Beecher Stowe, President Abraham Lincoln said, “so you are the little woman who wrote the book that started this great war." Surprisingly enough for a book with such great historical impact, Uncle Tom’s Cabin has been banned in school districts over a century later. Schools are attempting to rid their educational safe-space of inappropriate and explicit topics, but is banning historical literature going too far? Although it contains racially explicit language, when put into historical context, Uncle Tom’s Cabin provides valuable historical reference and a means to express the intimate struggles of African Americans in the mid-1800’s. Certainly, some may say that the