USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Harriet Beecher Stowe’s 1852 anti-slavery novel “Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly, ” with its theme of the immorality of slavery, was the best-selling novel of the 19th century.

Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -Uncle Tom’s Cabin, or Life among the Lowly is at heart a typical nineteenth-century melodrama of cruelty, suffering, religious devotion, broken homes, and improbable reunions.

Detailed explanation-4: -Perhaps the most memorable-and almost certainly the most harrowing-portions of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin occur during Tom’s time at the Legree plantation: a narrative plunge into the horrors of slavery in the Deep South, and a stylistic plunge into the realm of the Gothic.