USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Uncle Tom’s Cabin was a runaway best-seller, selling 10, 000 copies in the United States in its first week; 300, 000 in the first year; and in Great Britain, 1.5 million copies in one year. In the 19th century, the only book to outsell Uncle Tom’s Cabin was the Bible.

Detailed explanation-2: -In March 1852, a Boston publisher decided to issue Uncle Tom’s Cabin as a book and it became an instant best seller. Three hundred thousand copies were sold the first year, and about two million copies were sold worldwide by 1857. For a three-month period Stowe reportedly received $10, 000 in royalties.

Detailed explanation-3: -Harriet Beecher Stowe’s anti-slavery novel, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, is published. The novel sold 300, 000 copies within three months and was so widely read that when President Abraham Lincoln met Stowe in 1862, he reportedly said, “So this is the little lady who made this big war.”

Detailed explanation-4: -Uncle Tom’s Cabin, in full Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly, novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe, published in serialized form in the United States in 1851–52 and in book form in 1852.

Detailed explanation-5: -Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin was a literary phenomenon and sold more than 300, 000 copies in the United States alone in its first year, and more than a million in Great Britain.