USA HISTORY

MANIFEST DESTINY 1806 1855

COMPROMISE OF 1850

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
What was Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Stowe’s first full length novel?
A
To Kill a Mockingbird
B
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
C
The Slave Catcher
D
The Last fo the Mohicans
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote the novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852), which vividly dramatized the experience of slavery. The book was an immediate sensation.

Detailed explanation-2: -In Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe shared ideas about the injustices of slavery, pushing back against dominant cultural beliefs about the physical and emotional capacities of black people. Stowe became a leading voice in the anti-slavery movement, and yet, her ideas about race were complicated.

Detailed explanation-3: -In 1852 Harriet Beecher Stowe published her bestselling antislavery novel, Uncle Tom’s Cabin.

Detailed explanation-4: -Uncle Tom’s Cabin. On June 5, 1851, Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly began to appear in serial form in The National Era, an abolitionist weekly published in Washington, D.C. Harriet Beecher Stowe’s anti-slavery story was published in forty installments over the next ten months.

Detailed explanation-5: -First published by John P. Jewett & Company, it changed ownership among U.S. publishers at least four times before the copyright expired in 1893. Each publisher also attempted to capitalize on its popularity by publishing new and “special” editions, where new elements, illustrations, and commentary were added.

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