Uncle Tom's Cabin

by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Harriet Beecher Stowe's world-shaking novel of slavery in America, whose portrait of human suffering and dignity helped galvanise the abolitionist cause and change the course of a nation.

At a glance Few novels have ever moved a nation as this one did. Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote to make her readers feel the human reality of slavery, and… What it's about The novel follows the intertwined fates of enslaved people in the… Through their journeys Stowe lays bare the workings of slavery, the auction block, the…

The novel follows the intertwined fates of enslaved people in the American South, above all the faithful, long-suffering Tom, sold away from his family and passed between owners of varying cruelty and kindness, and…