Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. Stowe was partly inspired by the slave narrative The Life of Josiah Henson, Formerly a Slave, Now an Inhabitant of Canada. It was the second best-selling book of the 19th century, following the Bible, and is credited with helping fuel the abolitionist...