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Uncle Tom's Cabin (World Digital Library)

by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Maura Jane Farrelly, Ph.D.
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Uncle Tom's Cabin is arguably the most controversial novel ever written by an American. The impetus for the story was the enactment of the Fugitive Slave Law in 1850, which required all residents of the United States to report to the proper authorities any knowledge they may have had of the whereabouts of escaped slaves.

The critique of greed and inhumanity, innocence and redemption, continues to spark debate about the role and the meaning of race in American society. Its critics today point to it as a story of racial stereotypes that have hindered and harmed African Americans for more than three centuries. Its antebellum critics claimed that the novel painted an unrepresentative and deliberately misleading picture of an age-old institution that gave structure to society and allowed for everyone to benefit. Regardless of the criticism, though, the fact remains that very few works of fiction have had the political, religious, and literary impact that Uncle Tom's Cabin had—and continues to have—on American society and culture.

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