USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -In 1852, the serial was published as a two-volume book. 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.

Detailed explanation-3: -In 1852 Harriet Beecher Stowe published her bestselling antislavery novel, Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Sales for Uncle Tom’s Cabin were astronomical, eclipsed only by sales of the Bible. The book became a sensation and helped move antislavery into everyday conversation for many northerners.

Detailed explanation-4: -"It changed the way that Americans talked about race, both at the time of the Civil War and after, ” he said on Talk of the Nation. “It also spawned an industry that Harriet Beecher Stowe would have been quite unhappy with, with the Tom plays and the sort of avenue toward racist depiction."