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Title page for Volume I of the first edition of Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852)
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| Harriet Beecher Stowe | |
| Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly. | |
| Hammatt Billings | |
| English | |
| Novel | |
| March 20, 1852 (two volumes) | |
| John P. Jewett and Company, after serialization in The National Era beginning June 5, 1851 | |
| United States | |
| OCLC | 1077982310 |
| 813.3 | |
| LC Class | PS2954 .U5 |
| Followed by | A Key to Uncle Tom’s Cabin |
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“.[1][2][3]
Stowe, a Connecticut-born teacher at the Hartford Female Seminary, was part of the religious Beecher family and an active abolitionist. She wrote the sentimental novel to depict the reality of slavery while also asserting that Christian love could overcome slavery.[4][5][6] The novel focuses on the character of Uncle Tom, a long-suffering black slave around whom the stories of the other characters revolve.
