Uncle Tom’s Cabin, one the most influential American works of fiction ever published in American history. The book is a symbolic illustration of the lives of a black slave in southern American; written by Harriet Beecher Stowe, who was an American abolitionist and novelist. Her work was written after the passage of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 law, which made aiding runaway slaves a federal crime. It was one of the most controversial law pass from The Compromise of 1850. In the events of debate over slavery in the states, Stowe began publishing Uncle Tom’s Cabin in series of chapters in the weekly paper called the National Era. When the novel was published in book form in March 1852 it was banned from the South. Uncle Tom's Cabin created…show more content… Most historians agree the novel’s impacted by causing the Civil War, and most historians agree that the book set a stage for the election of presidential candidate Abraham Lincoln. It made the North to be more resistant or opposed to the issue of slavery asking them converting them to to an overall view of banning slavery. In the South, the novel appeared to create more support to defended slavery which later divided the nation.
On the other hand ,Southern states was very discouraged with the novel, some state legislatures even banned the book. The reviewers in the South called the book as being inaccurate and misleading. A southern critic named, Dr. A. Woodward, wrote a book called A Review of Uncle Tom's Cabin: Or, An Essay on Slavery , in the book he described the novel as “reckless and wicked representation of the institution of slavery,” and if it continued to spread it would push the nation into “revolutions, butcheries, and blood.”( Woodward) Also in responses many southern writers published 29 proslavery books called as “Anti-Tom novels”, where they described black as being happy and as better off than attaining their freedom in the South. In an effort to defend her novel Stowe published a volume titled A Key to Uncle Tom’s Cabin, which provided evidence that the novel has fictional characters ,but was based…show more content… There was children’s books, advertising, and doll regarding with Uncle Tom’s cabin ;also plays were created using this novel. Uncle Tom's Cabin will certainly be remembered as influential in shedding light on a necessary issue over slavery. The novel’s main cultural legacy is its power to provoke the injustice of slavery and racism.
Uncle Tom’s cabin has created a permanent place in American literature ;it even is very popular throughout the world, translated into more than sixty languages. The novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin came as a political force in American history; it effectively used moral persuasion receiving sympathy from its readers. The impact of the novel stirred the debate of ending slavery thus leaving the South in a state of distrust and hostility toward the
