Uncle Tom's Cabin
-Uncle Tom's Cabin is a best seller anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe, published in 1852, just 5 years before the case was held
-the novel "helped lay the groundwork for the Civil War", according to Will Kaufman (Kaufman 18)
-Harriet Stowe, an active abolitionist, focused the novel on the character of Uncle Tom, a long-suffering black slave around whom the stories of other characters revolve, depicting the harsh reality and and immorality of slavery
-the novel "helped lay the groundwork for the Civil War", according to Will Kaufman (Kaufman 18)
-Harriet Stowe, an active abolitionist, focused the novel on the character of Uncle Tom, a long-suffering black slave around whom the stories of other characters revolve, depicting the harsh reality and and immorality of slavery
