USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -A major theme in Uncle Tom’s Cabin is the problem of slavery and the treatment of humans as property, concepts that Stowe counterbalanced against the morality of Christianity. Stowe’s depiction of slavery in her novel was informed by her Christianity and by her immersion in abolitionist writings.

Detailed explanation-2: -Uncle Tom’s Cabin widened the chasm between the North and the South, greatly strengthened Northern abolitionism, and weakened British sympathy for the Southern cause.

Detailed explanation-3: -It brought slavery to life for many Northerners. It did not necessarily make these people devoted abolitionists, but the book began to move more and more Northerners to consider ending the institution of slavery. In 1862, Stowe met President Abraham Lincoln while she was visiting Washington, DC.

Detailed explanation-4: -However, many in the North also continued to support slavery, and even many abolitionists still held racist views of African Americans. White southerners were outraged by Uncle Tom’s Cabin and feared it might cause slave rebellions.