Uncle Tom's Cabin: or Life among the Lowly

A MORAL BATTLE CRY FOR FREEDOM TO THE WORLDUncle Toms Cabin or Life Among the Lowly is an abolitionist novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe. It achieved wide popularity particularly among white readers in the North by vividly dramatizing the experience of slavery. When Stowe visited President Lincoln at the White House in 1862 he reportedly said So youre the little woman who wrote the book that made this Great War This statement regardless of its truth testifies to Uncle Toms Cabins impact. Despite Stowes desire to portray slavery as a powerful blight upon the nation she also did much to expand anti-black sentiment through her presentation of stereotypical black characters in the novel. However this book read by hundreds of thousands of Americans proved a powerful weapon in the campaign to end human bondage in the United States.