Harriet Beecher Stowe’s anti-slavery novel, Uncle Tom’s Cabin,
was published on this day in 1852.
The novel sold 300,000 copies within three months and was so
widely read that when President Abraham Lincoln met Stowe in
1862, he reportedly said, “So this is the little lady who made this
big war.”
The story follows the brutalized lives of enslaved people—
centered on the long-suffering Uncle Tom—exposing the
cruelties of the system.
It was the 19th century’s best-selling novel behind the Bible,
accelerating abolitionist fervor.
Harriet Elisabeth Beecher Stowe (1811 – 1896)
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