UNCLE TOM's CABIN by Harriet Beecher Stowe (Annotated)

📖 The Scoop

Harriet Beecher Stowe is considered via many to have written the most influential American novel in history. When she met President Lincoln in 1862, he reportedly referred to as her "the little girl who started out this massive war." Indeed, Uncle Tom's Cabin become the primary social protest novel posted inside the United States. In analyses of Uncle Tom's Cabin, many critics experience that Stowe's writing turned into deeply encouraged with the aid of the truth that her father, husband, and brothers had been all ministers. Because she became a woman and therefore could not preach, Stowe let her Christianity inspire her first, most essential and influential novel. Stowe changed into additionally inspired via her private revel in with the antislavery motion at some point of her adolescence on the northern aspect of the Ohio River, a border between slave states and freedom. With the urging of her sister-in-law, Stowe determined to apply her writing competencies to similarly the abolitionist, or anti-slavery, purpose. Thus, Uncle Tom's Cabin was born.It started as a sequence of testimonies at some point of 1851-52 for the National Era, a Washington abolitionist newspaper. Upon its book in 1852 by using the Boston publishing corporation Jewett, Uncle Tom's Cabin have become so famous that it offered greater copies than any book earlier than that with the acceptation of the Bible. Stowe toured the US and Europe to speak in opposition to slavery and wrote A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin a yr. later, in 1853, to provide documentation of the truth upon which her novel is primarily based.

Genre: Fiction / General (fancy, right?)