Uncle Tom's Cabin | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-12-04

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Uncle Tom's Cabin


00:02:13 1 Sources
00:04:53 2 Publication
00:07:17 3 Plot
00:07:26 3.1 Eliza escapes with her son; Tom sold "down the river"
00:08:55 3.2 Eliza's family hunted; Tom's life with St. Clare
00:10:17 3.3 Tom sold to Simon Legree
00:12:16 3.4 Final section
00:12:55 4 Major characters
00:13:04 4.1 Uncle Tom
00:13:40 4.2 Eliza
00:14:28 4.3 Eva
00:15:37 4.4 Simon Legree
00:16:59 5 Other characters
00:20:20 6 Major themes
00:23:23 7 Style
00:26:09 8 Reactions to the novel
00:26:41 8.1 Contemporary and world reaction
00:32:02 8.2 Literary significance and criticism
00:36:02 9 Creation and popularization of stereotypes
00:39:11 10 Anti-Tom literature
00:41:05 11 Dramatic adaptations
00:41:15 11.1 Plays and Tom shows
00:45:03 11.2 Films
00:50:56 12 See also
00:51:54 13 Collections



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SUMMARY
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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 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 Civil War".Stowe, a Connecticut-born teacher at the Hartford Female Seminary and an active abolitionist, featured the character of Uncle Tom, a long-suffering black slave around whom the stories of other characters revolve. The sentimental novel depicts the reality of slavery while also asserting that Christian love can overcome something as destructive as enslavement of fellow human beings.Uncle Tom's Cabin was the best-selling novel of the 19th century and the second best-selling book of that century, following the Bible. It is credited with helping fuel the abolitionist cause in the 1850s. In the first year after it was published, 300,000 copies of the book were sold in the United States; one million copies in Great Britain. In 1855, three years after it was published, it was called "the most popular novel of our day." The impact attributed to the book is great, reinforced by a story that when Abraham Lincoln met Stowe at the start of the Civil War, Lincoln declared, "So this is the little lady who started this great war."  The quote is
apocryphal; it did not appear in print until 1896, and it has been argued that "The long-term durability of Lincoln's greeting as an anecdote in literary studies and Stowe scholarship can perhaps be explained in part by the desire among many contemporary intellectuals ... to affirm the role of literature as an agent of social change."The book and the plays it inspired helped popularize a number of stereotypes about black people. These include the affectionate, dark-skinned "mammy"; the "pickaninny" stereotype of black children; and the "Uncle Tom", or dutiful, long-suffering servant faithful to his white master or mistress. In recent years, the negative associations with Uncle Tom's Cabin have, to an extent, overshadowed the historical impact of the book as a "vital antislavery tool."