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Is this novel still a good read today? I was thinking of getting a copy and reading it but understand it contains some racial stereotyping.
Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote one of the most influential novels in American history. It has been credited with greatly contributing to the abolitionist movement of the 1850s. The book revolves around a single theme, that slavery is evil and immoral. Her book was the best selling novel of the 19th century. The book was well received in the North but not so in the South were some felt it was full of lies. Some historian even say it helped bring on the Civil War. This book greatly influenced how Northern viewed slavery.
Stowe used the book The Life of Josiah Henson, Formerly a Slave, Now an Inhabitant of Canada, Narrated by Himself as a basis for her novel and some even today fell that Henson exaggerated his experiences as a slave. If so then Uncle Tom's Cabin may have contained exaggerations. If true then the Northern view of slavery during the 1850s may have been slanted.
Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote one of the most influential novels in American history. It has been credited with greatly contributing to the abolitionist movement of the 1850s. The book revolves around a single theme, that slavery is evil and immoral. Her book was the best selling novel of the 19th century. The book was well received in the North but not so in the South were some felt it was full of lies. Some historian even say it helped bring on the Civil War. This book greatly influenced how Northern viewed slavery.
Stowe used the book The Life of Josiah Henson, Formerly a Slave, Now an Inhabitant of Canada, Narrated by Himself as a basis for her novel and some even today fell that Henson exaggerated his experiences as a slave. If so then Uncle Tom's Cabin may have contained exaggerations. If true then the Northern view of slavery during the 1850s may have been slanted.
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