Uncle Tom's Cabin
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| '''''Uncle Tom's Cabin'''; or, Life Among the Lowly'' is an [[anti-slavery]] novel by [[United States|American]] author [[Harriet Beecher Stowe]]. Published in [[1852]], the novel had a profound effect on attitudes toward [[African American]]s and [[History of slavery in the United States|slavery in the United States]], so much so in the latter case that the novel intensified the [[Origins of the American Civil War|sectional conflict]] leading to the [[American Civil War]]. | '''''Uncle Tom's Cabin'''; or, Life Among the Lowly'' is an [[anti-slavery]] novel by [[United States|American]] author [[Harriet Beecher Stowe]]. Published in [[1852]], the novel had a profound effect on attitudes toward [[African American]]s and [[History of slavery in the United States|slavery in the United States]], so much so in the latter case that the novel intensified the [[Origins of the American Civil War|sectional conflict]] leading to the [[American Civil War]]. | ||
| + | ''Uncle Tom's Cabin'' was the [[best-selling]] novel of the 19th century and the second best-selling book of that century, following the Bible. | ||
| == Censorship history == | == Censorship history == | ||
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Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. Published in 1852, the novel had a profound effect on attitudes toward African Americans and slavery in the United States, so much so in the latter case that the novel intensified the sectional conflict leading to the American Civil War.
Uncle Tom's Cabin was the best-selling novel of the 19th century and the second best-selling book of that century, following the Bible.
Censorship history
The book was banned in the Southern States of the U. S. for negative depiction of slave-owners; banned in Czarist Russia; challenged by the NAACP for its racist portrayal of African Americans and the use of the word "Nigger"; banned in Waukegan, Illinois (1984) for undesirable racial language.
See also
- History of slavery in the United States
- Origins of the American Civil War
- Timeline of the American Civil Rights Movement
- Ramona, a novel that attempted to do for Native Americans in California what Uncle Tom's Cabin had done for African Americans
