Uncle Tom's Cabin

(noun)

Uncle Tom's Cabin, or Life Among the Lowly is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. Published in 1852, the novel "helped lay the groundwork for the Civil War. "

Examples of Uncle Tom's Cabin in the following topics:

  • Uncle Tom's Cabin

    • Uncle Tom's Cabin, by Harriet Beecher Stowe, was a bestselling novel that convinced many Northerners of the evils of slavery.
    • In the South, on the other hand, Uncle Tom's Cabin ignited a firestorm of protest from defenders of slavery.
    • Uncle Tom's Cabin has also inspired many literary works thematically concerned with race and U.S. slave culture.
    • The title page of the first edition of Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin.
    • Discuss how the publication of Uncle Tom’s Cabin influenced attitudes about slavery

  • The Old South

    • The most influential abolitionist tract was Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852), the best-selling novel and play by Harriet Beecher Stowe .
    • Her depiction of the evil slave owner Simon Legree, a transplanted Yankee who kills the Christ-like Uncle Tom, outraged the North, helped sway British public opinion against the South, and inflamed Southern slave owners.
    • The title page of the first edition of Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin.

  • From Gradualism to Abolition

    • A prominent example of this is Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin, or Life Among the Lowly.
    • Uncle Tom’s Cabin was a success in the North, selling more than 300,000 copies in the first nine months of its publication, and more than a million copies by 1853.

  • The Impending Crisis

    • The Impending Crisis of the South condemns the institution of slavery, but Helper did not employ a sentimental or moralistic abolitionist approach to his arguments (in contrast to Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin).

  • Popular Culture

    • Theaters offered both high-class and pop culture entertainment, sometimes even melding the two into a kind of "high pop. " The most popular play was Uncle Tom's Cabin.
    • Rice was called the "Father of American Minstrelsy. " Characters played by these minstrels, such as Uncle Ned and Zip Coon, portrayed African-American males as stupid and lazy.
    • One of his "freaks" was General Tom Thumb, who was two feet one inch tall at age five, and then quit growing.

  • The Emergence of "American" Literature

    • In 1854, he published Walden; or, Life in the Woods, a book about the two years he spent in a small cabin on Walden Pond near Concord, Massachusetts.
    • Emily Dickinson began writing poetry in the 1830s, and Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852) rose to a prominent reputation in the late 1970s.

  • Abolitionists and the American Ideal

    • This movement to tout the immorality of slavery gained momentum with the widespread publication of Uncle Tom's Cabin in the North in 1852.