Uncle Tom's Cabin: An anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe having a profound effect on attitudes toward African Americans and slavery in the U.S. and said to have "helped lay the groundwork for the Civil War".

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 U.S. and is said to have "helped lay the groundwork for the Civil War".

Stowe, a Connecticut-born teacher at the Hartford Female Seminary and an active abolitionist, featured the character of Uncle Tom, a long-suffering black slave around whom the stories of other characters r...