SECTIONAL CRISIS 1850 1861
UNCLE TOMS CABIN
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plays were developed for it
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it ran in a newspaper as a twelve part series
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people shared the story with each other
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all of these
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Detailed explanation-1: -Uncle Tom’s Cabin was part of a large body of anti-slavery writing. Stowe borrowed from books by enslaved people including Josiah Henson, Lewis Clarke, and Solomon Northup. As a white woman, Stowe was seen as less threatening to white readers than Black abolitionists, helping her novel reach more readers.
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: -Readers of all ages and levels of education, male and female, American and British, black and white (although the book was certainly intended chiefly for a white audience), made Uncle Tom’s Cabin one of the most successful bestsellers to be published in the United States.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Impact of Uncle Tom’s Cabin It made slavery personal and relatable instead of just some “peculiar institution” in the South. It also sparked outrage. In the North, the book stoked anti-slavery views.