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Uncle Tom's Montgomery County Cabin

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From: The Washington Post
Date: 19971210
Author:Michael Richman

Nearly a century and a half ago, Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin, a sentimental antislavery novel in which the book's principal character, Uncle Tom, was a faithful slave killed by a cruel master.

An instant success, the book sold 300,000 copies within a year of its release in 1852 and remained a bestseller until after the Civil War.

By delivering a passionate indictment of slavery, the book had intensified North-South antagonism in the prewar era. Northerners sympathized with the plight of slaves, while outraged Southerners questioned the book's accuracy. Upon meeting Stowe at ...

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