Harriet Beecher Stowe 
Uncle Tom’s Cabin 

‘Uncle Tom’s Cabin’ is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. Published in 1852, the novel ‘helped lay the groundwork for the Civil War’, according to Will Kaufman. Stowe, a Connecticut-born teacher at the Hartford Female Seminary and an active abolitionist, featured the character of Uncle Tom, a long-suffering black slave around whom the stories of other characters revolve.

Harriet Elisabeth Beecher Stowe (June 14, 1811 – July 1, 1896) was an American abolitionist and author. She came from a famous religious family and is best known for her novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852).