Uncle Tom's Cabin

Uncle Tom's Cabin was written by Harriet Beecher Stowe. She lived in Cincinnati, Ohio. She was a white wife and mother. Her and her husband Calvin hired fugitive slaves to work in their homes. They lived right up next to the river so they could see Kentucky, a slave state. She had visited there before and had done some business with people who owned slaves. She held a spot in her heart for slaves and would sit and listen to their employees stories about their lives and their owners. One slave that they hired was an escapee, after hearing of this her husband and her brother helped the slave escape to Canada where she could be safe and receive citizenship and freedom. The first article of the book was published by The National Era newspaper who was antislavery. Harriet Beecher Stowe kept going for sources and looking for peoples stories. People around her who knew her would help her find facts and stories from the very people who had experienced it. All in all the book is two volumes and inside of those two volumes she describes slavery at its worst. The book is made up of actual stories although they could be not as gory. After the book was published and people began to read and understand it things started to change. The way that slaves were treated changed for the better and the way that people saw slavery changed as well. The slaves began to actually mean something to people and the world. The hard-hearted slave masters however only got more mad and started treating them worse than before. The book became a bestseller in the U.S., Britain, Europe, and Asia. It was also translated into over 60 languages throughout the world. Uncle Tom's Cabin gives us an inside look at slavery and what it was all thanks to Harriet Beecher Stowe and the brave slaves that shared their life stories with her and the world.

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