USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -White southerners were outraged by Uncle Tom’s Cabin and feared it might cause slave rebellions.

Detailed explanation-2: -The two most famous anti-Tom books are The Sword and the Distaff by William Gilmore Simms and The Planter’s Northern Bride by Caroline Lee Hentz.

Detailed explanation-3: -Uncle Tom’s Cabin was one of the most contested novels of its time. Initially, the novel was criticized by whites who thought Stowe’s portrayal of black characters was too positive, and, later, by black critics who believed these same characters were oversimplified and stereotypical.

Detailed explanation-4: -Pro-slavery white Southerners argued that Stowe’s story was just that: a story. They argued that its account of slavery was either “wholly false, or at least wildly exaggerated, ” according to the University of Virginia’s special website on Stowe’s work.

Detailed explanation-5: -Aunt Phillis’s Cabin; Or, Southern Life as It Is by Mary Henderson Eastman was among the first of the genre published in May 1852 and the best-selling.