INTRODUCTION

 Title: Uncle Tom’s Cabin or, Life Among the Lowly

 Author: Harriet Beecher Stowe.

 Genre: Anti-slavery novel, novel of social protest

 Date of first publication: 1851

 Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly is an

anti-slavery novel
AUTHOR: Harriet Beecher
Stowe.
• The influence attributed to the book was so great that a
likely apocryphal story arose of Abraham Lincoln meeting
Stowe at the start of the Civil War and declaring, "So this
is the little lady who started this great war.

• Abraham Lincoln meeting Stowe at the start of the

Civil War and declaring, "So this is the little lady who
started this great war.

• She dedicated her life to fighting for social justice and

the freedom of black slaves.
 UNCLE TOM’S CABIN

Uncle Tom's Cabin first appeared as a 40-week serial

in The National Era, an abolitionist periodical,
starting with the June 5, 1851, issue.

The final installment was released in the April 1,

1852, issue of Era.

The work was written during the time the American

Civil War (North - South) was raging.

"helped lay the groundwork for the [American] Civil War"

 SUMMARY
The work tells the miserable life of a black
slave, Uncle Tom. Uncle is an honest,
straightforward, honorable person. But his
life was a series of dark, humiliating days.
He had to leave his wife and children, be
trafficked from place to place, and be
brutally beaten. In the end, defending his
dignity, he was beaten to death in a
terrible cotton plantation in the American
South, where many miserable lives like his
own were buried. The work also tells the
fate of Eliza and her child, running away. It
was a mother who sacrificed everything to
save her child from a cruel slave trader; it
was a wife who loved her husband
passionately – a smart young man who
invented a hemp stripper, whose life was
also tormented, hundreds of thousands of
bitter
 • The first path, Uncle Tom lived a pure
Two ways to life, he loved infinitely for those in the
same situation, he bravely died but
realize the refused to hit another slave.
ideal of •The second path is the one that Eliza,
freedom. George took. Must rise up, fight
uncompromisingly with the enemy.