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Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe.Published in two volumes in 1852, the novel had a profound effect on attitudes toward African Americans and slavery in the U.S., and is said to have "helped lay the groundwork for the [American] Civil War".
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Uncle Tom is the title character of Harriet Beecher Stowe's 1852 novel Uncle Tom's Cabin. [1] The character was seen in the Victorian era as a ground-breaking literary attack against the dehumanization of slaves.
Anti-Tom literature consists of the 19th century pro-slavery novels and other literary works written in response to Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin. Also called plantation literature , these writings were generally written by authors from the Southern United States .
Robert Duncanson’s Uncle Tom and Little Eva, painted in 1853, is housed at the Detroit Institute of Arts. [2] This work demonstrates Duncanson's growth in his early years of landscape painting. [20] The painting depicts a scene from Harriet Beecher Stowe's anti-slavery novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin.
Harriet Elisabeth Beecher Stowe (/ s t oʊ /; June 14, 1811 – July 1, 1896) was an American author and abolitionist.She came from the religious Beecher family and wrote the popular novel Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852), which depicts the harsh conditions experienced by enslaved African Americans.
In her later years, she returned to Hartford, where she wrote some of her best-known works other than 1852's "Uncle Tom's Cabin" — "The American Woman's Home" and "Poganuc People" — and helped ...
Uncle Tom and Little Eva is an oil on canvas painted by Edwin Long in 1866. [1] It depicts a scene from the novel Uncle Tom's Cabin . [ 2 ] The painting is kept at Russell-Cotes Art Gallery & Museum .