Uncle Tom's Cabin

Uncle Tom's Cabin was a anti-slavery novel written by the author of Harriet Beecher Stowe. This book was published in 1852 and helped lay the ground work for the Civil War. This novel featured a long suffering black slave who's story evolved many others and was told form his point of view. This book was about the realness and the suffering that was involved with slavery and also that by being close to god can overcome the obstacles that are brought on by the issue of slavery. This was also the best selling novel of the entire 19th century.

This novel was read by many slaves and made them in some ways have hope and know that there is some ways that they can be free. This gave many of them something to rely on and something to pray for. Along with many people from the South who read this novel and were deeply offended by it. The people living in the South were very for slavery and were angered by the idea of the selling being so high on this particular novel.