Uncle Tom’s Cabin, also known as Life Among the Lowly is an andti slavery
novel written by Harriet Beecher Stowe. Published in 1852, the novel created
a big impact on the attitude of Americans toward slavery. It’s effect rose so
much that it was later said even by the great president Abraham Lincoln when
he met Stowe, “So this is the little lady who wrote the book that made this
great war” [1].
Uncle Tom’s Cabin was the best-seller of the 19th century and is credited as
the second best-seller of its century after the Bible. In its first year, the novel
sold 300,000 copies in the U.S. alone. The book has been translated into
at least twenty-three languages.