when was uncle tom's cabin published
In A Nutshell. Harriet Beecher Stowe âs inspiration for Uncle Tomâs Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly was the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, which made aiding or assisting runaway slaves a crime in free states. Uncle Tomâs Cabin, which was first published in 1852, is thus a deliberate and carefully written anti-slavery argument. Sure, itâs a novel, but donât forget that itâs also a sermon intended to convince a Christian audience that slavery is an evil institution and must be destroyed.