Title: Uncle Tom's cabin
Description: Discusses the circumstances that existed at the time Stowe wrote her famous novel, the details of the book, and its impact on feelings about the existence of slavery in the United States in the mid-nineteenth century.
Subjects: African Americans in literature, Plantation life in literature, Literature and society, Slavery in literature, History and criticism, American literature, Slavery, American Didactic fiction, Uncle Tom (Fictitious character), In literature, Juvenile literature, History
Places: Southern States, United States
People: Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896)
Time periods: 19th century