The novel Uncle Tom's Cabin is a story that revolves around the cruel treatments of slavery, in a time where slaves were seen more as property then human beings. Harriet Beecher Stowe, the author, allows the reader to see how slaves were treated in the United States during the mid-nineteenth century. Intentionally using the book as a way of spreading an anti-slavery campaign in order to allow people to not just know the lives of …
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…in the U.S. slavery supported the lives of many rural families. An issue of racism, slavery, through the words of Harriet Beecher Stowe represent only death and the bad things in life. Works Cited Beecher Stowe, Harriet. Uncle Toms Cabin. New York: Harper and Row, Publishers, 1958. Unsigned. "London Times Review of Uncle Tom's Cabin." The London Times 18 Sept. 1852 . . 8 Mar. 2004 <http://www.iath.virginia.edu/utc/reviews/rere101at.h tml>.