Uncle Tom's Cabin

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.

• 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

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.