Uncle Toms Cabin
1852 · 19th Century
Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. Published in 1852, the novel had a profound effect on attitudes toward African Americans and slavery in the U.S. and is said to have 'helped lay the groundwork for the Civil War'. Learn more at Wikipedia
Key Figures
Harriet Beecher StoweJohn P. Jewett
Locations
Brunswick, MaineBoston, Massachusetts
Topics
stowebeecherliteraturenovelharrietamerican
Connected Events — 2 Connections
The Revolutionary War's founding principle that 'all men are created equal' created the fundamental ideological contradiction with slavery that Stowe exploited in Uncle Tom's Cabin, using America's own founding documents to argue against the peculiar institution American Revolution Begins
Moby-Dick's commercial failure demonstrated that symbolic literary fiction couldn't match direct social messaging, influencing Stowe's approach Moby-Dick Published
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