Uncle Tom's Cabin

<p class=ql-align-justify><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>A MORAL BATTLE CRY FOR FREEDOM HEARD AROUND THE WORLD</strong></p><p><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Uncle Tom's Cabin or Life Among the Lowly</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> is the famous abolitionist novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe that helped shape public opinion on slavery in nineteenth-century America. It achieved wide popularity particularly among white readers in the North by vividly dramatizing the experience of slavery.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>When Stowe visited President Lincoln at the White House in 1862 he reportedly said So you're the little woman who wrote the book that made this Great War. Whether authentic or not the remark testifies to the extraordinary impact of Uncle Tom's Cabin.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Despite Stowe's desire to portray slavery as a powerful blight upon the nation the novel also reflects the racial stereotypes of its time. Yet this book read by hundreds of thousands of Americans proved a powerful weapon in the campaign to end human bondage in the United States.</span></p>