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Uncle Tom's Cabin Thesis

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From colonial times until the emancipation of slaves in 1863, slavery was used and cultivated in the south. After a long dispute over slavery and other conflicts, the civil war broke out in April 12 1861. Uncle Tom’s Cabin, written by Harriet Beecher Stowe, is an anti-slavery novel published in May 20 1852, nine years before the Civil War. It was so widely read and sold 300,000 copies within three month. Uncle Tom's Cabin was the second best-selling book of that century, following the Bible. When Harriet Beecher Stow visited Abraham Lincoln at the White House in December 1862, Lincoln said that “Is this the little woman who made this great war?" We don’t know whether Lincoln said that before or not. But did that book played an important role
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