who wrote "Uncle Tom's Cabin and what was it about?

Answer 1

I did. It's about 600 pages.

Answer 2

Harriet Beecher Stowe, (a white abolishionist woman of the 1800s).

It's about a slave named Uncle Tom. He is sold into slavery and works for this man that is good to him. He makes friends with the man's daughter .But the man ends up having to sale Uncle Tom to a plantation farther down south. The owner treats him badly and beats him. Uncle Tom dies in the end.

In the 1800s when slavery was becoming a big issue Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote this book. It showed how badly the slaves were treated. (The South said that she was lying and that they didn't treat their slaves this way). Anyway, it really got people turned against slavery. She was like the Thomas Paine of the 1800s. (Thomas Paine wrote a pamplet called "Common Sense" that made the colonists want to break away from King George and England.

It's a really good book but it's a bit hard to read because she writes it the way that African American slaves talked back then.

Answer 3

Uncle Tom's Cabin, or, Life Among the Lowly is a novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe which treats slavery as a central theme. The novel had a profound effect on the world's view of African-Americans and slavery, so much so in the latter case that people have said the book laid the groundwork for the American Civil War.

Stowe, a Connecticut-born teacher at the Hartford Female Academy and an active abolitionist, first published this book on March 20, 1852. The story focuses on the tale of Uncle Tom, a long-suffering black slave around whose life the other characters—both fellow slaves and slave owners—revolve. The novel depicts the harsh reality of slavery while also showing that Christian love and faith can overcome even something as evil as enslavement of fellow human beings.

Uncle Tom's Cabin was the best-selling novel of the 19th century (and the second best-selling book of the 19th century, following the Bible) and is credited with helping to fuel the abolitionist cause in the 1850s. In the first year after it was published, 300,000 copies of the book were sold in the United States alone. The book's impact was so great that when Abraham Lincoln met Stowe at the start of the American Civil War, Lincoln is often quoted as having declared, "So this is the little lady who made this big war."

The book also created and spread several common stereotypes about blacks, many of which endure to this day. These include the affectionate, dark-skinned mammy; the Pickaninny stereotype of black children; and the Uncle Tom, or dutiful, long-suffering servant faithful to his white master or mistress. In recent years, the negative associations with Uncle Tom's Cabin have to a large degree overshadowed the historical impact of the book.

Answer 4

Harriet Beecher Stowe---

Uncle Tom's Cabin followed the life of serveral different slaves, really delving into the cruelty of slavery. Showing even if the masters were good, the slaves were still at jeopardy. It was a very good story that I recommend---though it's better on audio book. But beware, I don't general cry during books, but this one made me cry. It's a heart-jerker, but along it brings a good truth. Not to mention Uncle Tom's faith in Christ is inspring.

Answer 5

Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin.
A young slave woman is sold off from her child and someone like her husband. Uncle Tom raises her child.
Uncle Tom dies at the end.
I recall how there is slaves families were disregarded by their owners.
There are a couple of spirituals (African-American Gospel songs in the book)
One of the slaves I think it is the woman slave tries to escape. When she is found, she goes to an even worse slave owner.

Answer 6

It is by Harriet Beecher Stowe. It was like the first book that told about the horrors of slavery from a slave's point of view. Before she wrote it, a lot of people that didn't own slaves didn't know what happened to them on the plantations.

Answer 7

It was written by a courageous little woman named Harriet Beecher Stowe. When she was invited to the White House to meet President Lincoln, the President smiled at her and said, "So this is the little lady who started this great big war." Pax - C.

Answer 8

Harriet Beecher Stowe.Read it

Answer 9

~It was written by George Lincoln Rockwell and deals with a pioneer farming family in Kansas in the 1830's. The book indirectly lead to the "Bleeding Kansas" skirmishes between Kansas and neighboring Iowa.

Answer 10

by some girl named harriet but i cant remember her last name and i just learned it today and it looks like a boring book and i think it's about slaves and the underground railroad.