Uncle Tom's Cabin

Uncle Tom’s Cabin(1852) by Harriet Beecher Stowe was considered the most controversial book during its time and many believe it was the cause of the Civil War. Stowe was an abolitionist and wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin to show the gruesome treatment of slaves in the south. The story revolves around a slave named Tom and he is sold to many different slave owners throughout his life and ends with his death. The brutality of the book gave insight on the poor treatment of the slaves in the south and abolition of slavery needed to be done. The south became more angered because of the book’s over-exaggerated story and stereotyping the southern slaveholders as awful beings.