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: -Uncle Tom’s Cabin, written and published by Harriet Beecher Stowe in 1852, was the most popular 19th century novel and, after the Bible, was the second-best-selling book of that century. Over 300, 000 copies were sold in the United States in its first year alone.

Detailed explanation-3: -"Uncle Tom’s Cabin” refers to the small home that Tom, a main character, creates with his wife Chloe on his master’s property in Kentucky, before his master sells him south. The small house a place of domestic comfort even to Tom’s master’s son, who spends many hours at the cabin reading the Bible out loud to Tom.

Detailed explanation-4: -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.