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Uncle Tom's Cabin
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
Southern Reactions
- We, as the Pro-Slavery South, tried to discredit Stowe and were partially successful
- Most Northerners still believed her lies about the "horrors" of slavery
What Is It?
A man in Alabama was kicked out of town for selling copies of the novel!
Conclusions About Event
Significance
- Uncle Tom's Cabin was a novel published by Harriet Beecher Stowe in March 1852
- Written by an american abolitionist author who had never experienced the horrors of slavery
- This event was important because it even further deepened sectional divisions
- Lincoln said to Stowe when he met her, "So you're the little woman who wrote the book that started this great war!"
- Just like the Missouri Compromise and Wilmot Proviso, this event caused deeper sectional divisions
- One of the leading causes of the Civil war
- Humanized slaves & exposed North to how slavery was
Who It Involved
- Northern Abolitionists
- Southern pro-slavery supporters
- Slaves
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