Review Of Uncle Tom's Cabin, By Harriet Beecher Stowe

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The first event that led to Civil War is Dred Scott decision.Dred Scott was a slave who chose to sue his master's widow for his freedom. He argued that his master, John Emerson, escorted him onto free soil in Illinois and the Wisconsin Territory, and thus had legally granted his freedom. In 1857, the case reached the United States Supreme Court. The Justices ruled against Scott because he did not hold any property. The Supreme Court's offensive opinion,which stated that blacks had "no rights which the white man was bound to respect" and rejected the right of any territory to ban slavery within its own borders inflamed public opinion in the North, leading to a hardening of antislavery attitudes and growth in popularity for the new antislavery Republican Party. …show more content…
Stowe was an abolitionist and she wrote this book to show the evils of slavery. The book had caused a huge impact on northerner’s view on slavery and it infuriated the South.The publication of the novel was extremely successful. 10,000 copies were sold in a week and 300,000 in a year. During the civil war, President Lincoln met Stowe in the White House and recognized the book was one of the events that led to the outbreak of the Civil

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