• Uncle Tom's Cabin is a best-selling novel from school teacher Harriet Beecher Stowe about slavery in 19th century America.

• 1. Author: Harriet Beecher Stowe
  2. Publication date: March 20, 1852
  3. Style: 19th Century sentimental novel
  4. Setting: Southern United States, early 19th Century
  5. The best-selling novel of the 19th Century
  6. Over 300,000 copies sold in first year in America
  7. 1851: published in periodical
  8. 1852: published in book form
  9. 1853: A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin published

• History

  The book was banned in the Southern States and has been challenged (or placed on a "banned" books list by the NAACP) for its allegedly racist portrayal of African Americans and the use of racial epithets. Because of these critical issues, a major motion picture of this classic novel has never been produced.

• Plot

  This book is about a farmer who is facing the loss of his farm because of debts. He decides to sell two of his slaves, Uncle Tom and Harry, to a slave trader. The story follows the sale of these two slaves and a slave maid, who ran away with her son.

• Characters

  • Uncle Tom
  • Eliza
  • Eva
  • Simon Legree
  • Topsy

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