Summary
Harriet Beecher Stowe: Uncle Tom's Cabin
Uncle Tom's Cabin (Uncle Tom's Cabin) is a novel by the American author Harriet Beecher-Stowe. The novel was the first US bestseller to sell more than a million copies. The novel Uncle Tom's Cabin was first published in serials in the abolitionist magazine National Era, and only later, in 1852, was it published in Boston as a book. With her novel, Harriet Beecher-Stowe polarized the abolitionist and anti-abolitionist debate and encouraged her compatriots to think about black slavery.
The characters in the novel are based on those from real life. The main character of the novel - a black slave, Uncle Tom never tasted freedom, he died as a slave on the plantation of his owner Simon Legree. Josiah Henson, a black slave, wrote down his memories after he escaped to freedom, and they served young Harriet Beecher Stowe for the novel Uncle Tom's Cabin.
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