Written by American author and abolitionist Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin was the best-selling novel and the second best-selling book of the 19th century, following the Bible. The novel had a profound impact to the abolitionist movement and is said to have helped lay the groundwork for the Civil War. While Uncle Tom's Cabin illustrates the dark side of slavery, its strong characters and their inspiring actions demonstrate the resilience of those with Christian faith and how that faith can help overcome the worst ...
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Written by American author and abolitionist Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin was the best-selling novel and the second best-selling book of the 19th century, following the Bible. The novel had a profound impact to the abolitionist movement and is said to have helped lay the groundwork for the Civil War. While Uncle Tom's Cabin illustrates the dark side of slavery, its strong characters and their inspiring actions demonstrate the resilience of those with Christian faith and how that faith can help overcome the worst circumstances. The influence attributed to the book was so great that a likely apocryphal story arose of Abraham Lincoln meeting Stowe at the start of the Civil War and declaring, "So this is the little lady who started this great war."
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A book everyone should read. Even President Lincoln had something good to say about this book.
bookishwench
Aug 3, 2009
Stereotyped? I say moving
Harriet Beecher Stowe's famous novel was written witha specific purpose: to refute the common thinking of her time that slavery was acceptable because it was more often benficial than harmful.
Stowe's many tales of slaves and slave-owners, good, bad and in-between, are woven together as their lives intermingle, and show plainly and fairly all sides of the question as they existed in her day. And bring the reader, while moved with compassion for the oppressed, to the ineveitable conclusion of the evil of the entire system.
Themes of Christianity runeverywhere through the novel, giving hope to the victims and conviction to the oppressors, as well as to the silent observers.
I couldn't get the images of hopelessness out of my mind long after putting the book down. I highly reccommend it, but caution the reader that the 'n-word' appears quite often.
