Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Uncle Tom’s Cabin is Harriet Beecher Stowe’s 1852 anti-slavery novel that exposed the brutality and injustice of American slavery through the tragic story of Uncle Tom, a kind and devout enslaved man. Its emotional power stirred national outrage, galvanized the abolitionist movement, and is famously said to have contributed to the outbreak of the Civil War—prompting Abraham Lincoln to call Stowe “the little woman who started this great war.”