Uncle Tom's Cabin Thesis

Uncle Tom’s Cabin was written by Harriet Beecher Stowe in the year of 1852. Harriet Beecher Stowe was a famous author and an abolitionist. She was also in a group full of people that despised slavery and slave catchers. In the book she described the sin of slavery and tried to convince many people to stand up and stop slavery. The book, published in 1852 sold over 300,000 copies in just the first year. It became even more popular and sold over two million copies in the first ten years after being published. In her book she described the lives of slaves and the amount of cruelty that each slave endured. In the book it stated that Harriet had never stepped on a plantation and saw the slave on a plantation, but she knew many details about slave lives and created a very informative book. …show more content…
Uncle Tom’s Cabin opened even more people’s eyes and showed them how bad slavery actually was during this time period. The South on the other hand strongly disagreed with the book and many of the events that were told throughout the story. Many Southerners called the book slander and said that it was just a Northerner that did not like slavery. The book did a lot of things but one of the bigger things that it did was it made free states show no sympathy to the Southern states. People that were not so informed on slaves and people that did not really know about slaves read this book. It made free people informed on the brutality that slaves were facing and many people in the free states did not like what was