Uncle Tom's Cabin | Ideas for Group Discussion
Few writers, particularly nineteenth-century female writers, can say that their work changed the course of a nation. But that is exactly what Harriet Beecher Stowe did when she wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin. Stowe's sentimental novel about the injustice of slavery and the benefits of Christian love became an immediate best-seller in 1852. Moreover, many people, including Abraham Lincoln, claim that her anti-slavery book helped start the Civil War. When he met Stowe in 1862, Lincoln said, "So you're the little woman who wrote the book that started this great war!"
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