Uncle Tom's Cabin

American  

noun

1. an antislavery novel (1852) by Harriet Beecher Stowe.

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Uncle Tom's Cabin Cultural  

1. (1852) A novel, first published serially, by Harriet Beecher Stowe; it paints a grim picture of life under slavery. The title character is a pious, passive slave, who is eventually beaten to death by the overseer Simon Legree.

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Published shortly before the Civil War, Uncle Tom's Cabin won support for the antislavery cause.

Although Stowe presents Uncle Tom as a virtuous man, the expression “Uncle Tom” is often used as a term of reproach for a subservient black person who tolerates discrimination.

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Montgomery buys home that inspired novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin"

From Washington Post ● Feb. 25, 2022

All in all, "The Jungle" ranks alongside Harriet Beecher Stowe's 1852 anti-slavery novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin" as one of the most politically influential works of literature in American history.

From Salon ● Oct. 17, 2021

Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin fired up the abolitionist movement.

From The Guardian ● Aug. 24, 2019

Plus, a novel that featured “Amazing Grace” and helped popularize it, Uncle Tom’s Cabin.

From Slate ● Apr. 19, 2018

One of them said that it would be a nice time to bury the novel, now that a Virginian, one hundred years after Appomattox, had written Uncle Tom’s Cabin.

From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut