Description

Experience the profound impact of Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe. This groundbreaking novel sheds light on the horrors of slavery, promotes empathy and understanding, and plays a pivotal role in the fight against racial injustice.

A powerful and influential anti-slavery novel!
 

• Harriet Beecher Stowe's influential novel that sparked conversations about slavery
• Offers a compassionate portrayal of the lives of enslaved individuals
• Examines themes of freedom, oppression, and the power of empathy
• Provokes thought and inspires action against racial injustice
• A landmark work that continues to resonate, igniting discussions on social justice and equality

About the Author

Born on June 14, 1811, in Litchfield, Connecticut, Harriet Elisabeth Beecher Stowe received a traditional academic education at her sister Catherine’ s school and studied classics and languages. She moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, when she was twenty-one. In Cincinnati, Stowe met several African Americans who had endured the Cincinnati riots of 1829, which took place between the Irish immigrants and the African Americans. Stowe also read a lot of abolitionist literature.
She began writing a story about the evils of slavery based on the literature that she had read and her personal observations. The story was first serialized in Washington, D.C.’ s abolitionist newspaper The National Era in 1851-52. It was published in book form in 1852 titled Uncle Tom’ s Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly. The novel was a sensation when it came out and is considered to have helped ignite the Civil War. After her husband’ s death in 1886, Stowe’ s health started deteriorating. She breathed her last on July 1, 1896, aged eighty-five. An American abolitionist and a famous author, Harriet Beecher Stowe continues to remain an important figure in world literature.