Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' became famous as an anti-slavery work that influenced public perceptions of slavery in America. The story, set on a Kentucky plantation, follows Uncle Tom, a dignified enslaved man, and explores themes of slavery, morality, and human dignity. Stowe's Christian perspective and experiences with fugitive slaves informed her narrative, contrasting the notions of freedom in the North with the oppression in the South.

1. UNCLE TOM’S
CABIN

2. Harriet Beecher Stowe
(1811-1896)
published more than 30 books, but
it was her best-selling anti-slavery
novel Uncle Tom's Cabin that
catapulted her to international
celebrity and secured her place in
history

3. While living in Cincinnati, Stowe
encountered fugitive enslaved
people and the Underground
Railroad. Later, she wrote Uncle
Tom's Cabin in reaction to recently
tightened fugitive slave laws. The
book had a major influence on the
way the American public viewed
slavery.
INTRODUCTION

4. SETTING
The book begins in the mid-19th
century on the Shelby plantation in
Kentucky, where Uncle Tom lives in a
cabin with his wife and children.
After fellow slave Eliza, the
"favorite" of Mrs. Shelby, learns
that her son is being sold, she flees
north up through Ohio and on to
Canada with her husband, also an

5. A major theme in Uncle Tom's Cabin
is the problem of slavery and the
treatment of humans as property,
concepts that Stowe
counterbalanced against the
morality of Christianity. Stowe's
depiction of slavery in her novel
was informed by her Christianity
POV

6. Uncle Tom's Cabin tells the story
of Uncle Tom, an enslaved
person, depicted as saintly and
dignified, noble and steadfast in
his beliefs. While being
transported by boat to auction in
New Orleans, Tom saves the life
of Little Eva, an angelic and
forgiving young girl, whose
SUMMARY

7. A major theme in Uncle Tom's Cabin is
the problem of slavery and the
treatment of humans as property,
concepts that Stowe counterbalanced
against the morality of Christianity.
Stowe's depiction of slavery in her
novel was informed by her Christianity
and by her immersion in abolitionist
writings.
LESSON

8. Geography. Uncle Tom's Cabin uses
the North to represent freedom
and the South to represent
slavery and oppression.
Obviously, the opposition is
rooted in history. However,
Stowe embellishes the opposition
so as to transform it from literal
SYMBOL

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UNCLE TOM’S
CABIN