He also played a key role in Harriet Beecher Stowe’s celebrated 1852 novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin, which historians have argued helped trigger the Civil War through its depiction of the subhuman ...

Her popular novel, Uncle Tom'sCabin, published a decade before the Civil War, helped change the way many Americans felt about slavery, and is forever linked to the abolitionist "fever." ...

In Uncle Tom's Cabin, Stowe made millions of Americans see slavery for the first time through the eyes of its victims.

The term comes from the 1852 novel “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” by Harriet Beecher Stowe about a slave perceived as too passive toward the white community, particularly the family who owns the plantation where ...

In the pre-Civil War South, a sadistic plantation owner brutalizes his slaves to the point of rebellion. Always obedient, peaceful and honest old slave Tom plays a central role in this tragedy.