Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Harriet Beecher Stowe · 1811–1896
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An anti-slavery novel that became the best-selling American book of its century and changed how many readers saw slavery. Its force is moral and sentimental, built on scenes of families torn apart. Its portraits of Black characters hardened into stereotypes, and James Baldwin attacked its method in a 1949 essay. It is read now above all for what it did.