Uncle Tom’s Cabin 1852-1952

H.G. Nicholas reconsiders the influence of this famous book on American opinion in the years preceding the Civil war, and on its world-wide public outside the United States.

On March 20, 1852, an obscure Boston publishing house published in two volumes a novel which for the past twelve months had been serialized in a minor Washington magazine, the National Era. Its author was known to only a small public by various slight-fictional sketches published in periodicals. But suddenly, within a month, the book and the author acquired a national reputation. The book was Uncle Tom’s Cabin, the author Harriet Beecher Stowe.

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