Uncle Tom's Cabin

Uncle Tom's Cabin was the first American novel to sell over a million copies. By calling attention to the issue of slavery, it has become a part of our country's literary and historical heritage.

Author: Harriet Beecher Stowe
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: 01/07/1970
Pages: 480
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.51lbs
Size: 7.00h x 4.40w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9780060806187

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 9.3
Point Value: 32
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 16725 / Uncle Tom's Cabin

About the Author
Stowe, Harriet Beecher: -

Harriet Beecher Stowe was an American author and abolitionist. Born in Litchfield, Connecticut, she was raised in a deeply religious family and educated in a seminary school run by her elder sister. In her adult life, Stowe married biblical scholar and abolitionist Calvin Ellis Stowe, who would later go on to work as Harriet's literary agent, and the two participated in the Underground Railroad by providing temporary refuge for escaped slaves travelling to the American North. Shortly before the outbreak of the American Civil War, Stowe published her most famous work, Uncle Tom's Cabin, a stark and sympathetic depiction of the desperate lives of African American slaves. The book went on to see unprecedented sales, and informed American and European attitudes towards abolition. In the years leading up to her death, suffering from dementia or Alzheimer's disease, Stowe is said to have begun re-writing Uncle Tom's Cabin, almost word-for-word, believing that she was writing the original manuscript once again. Stowe died in July 1, 1896 at the age of eighty-five.