Uncle Tom’s Cabin-1852

Cover of Uncle Tom's Cabin

  Uncle Tom's Cabin is a book written by Harriet Beecher Stowe. This book was a major cause of the Civil War.  This was one of the few books in American history that have caused such and uproar.  In the North, people became aware of the true horrors of slavery to the personal level.  Some people in the south finally realized what they were doing and slaves were the same as them.  Most of the south however was outraged and named it an irresponsible use of distortions and overstatements.  The book sold over 300,000 copies in the north alone.  The British at first liked this idea of a divided country, but this book swayed the British and they made it hard for the government to support the Confederacy.