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Uncle Tom is the title character of Harriet Beecher Stowe's 1852 novel Uncle Tom's Cabin. The character was seen in the Victorian era as a ground-breaking literary attack against the dehumanization of slaves.
Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. Published in two volumes 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 [American] Civil War".
May 27, 2024 · Uncle Tom’s Cabin, novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe, published in serialized form in the United States in 1851–52 and in book form in 1852. An abolitionist novel, it achieved wide popularity, particularly among white readers in the North, by vividly dramatizing the experience of slavery.
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A classic novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe that depicts the horrors of slavery and the courage of its victims. Follow the stories of Uncle Tom, Eliza, George, and other characters as they face hardships, escapes, and tragedies in the antebellum South.
- Harriet Beecher Stowe
- 1852
Jun 7, 2024 · Uncle Tom, title character in the antislavery novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin (serialized 1851–52, published as a book in 1852) by Harriet Beecher Stowe. Initially, the character Tom—called “Uncle” Tom in the Southern fashion of showing respect for an older man—was viewed sympathetically by the novel’s.
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Oct 28, 2021 · An Evening in Uncle Tom’s Cabin. The cabin of Uncle Tom was a small log building, close adjoining to “the house,” as the negro par excellence designates his master’s dwelling.
Uncle Tom's Cabin tells the story of a faithful, kind and extremely pious “Uncle Tom” and several characters associated with him. At the beginning of the book, Tom is one of the more fortunate slaves working for the very kind Shelby family who treat their slaves as human beings.
