Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncle_Tom%27s_Cabin Wikipedia page about this book: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onkel_Toms_H%C3%BCtte Release date is 2010-03-01
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"Onkel Tom's Hütte: oder die Geschichte eines christlichen Sklaven" by Harriet Beecher Stowe is an anti-slavery novel published in 1852. Written as a response to the Fugitive Slave Act, the work depicts the horrors of slavery through the story of Uncle Tom, a long-suffering enslaved man, and the characters whose lives revolve around him. Stowe asserts that Christian love could overcome slavery's evils. The novel became a bestseller and profoundly influenced American attitudes toward slavery, helping fuel the abolitionist movement in the 1850s. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
Slavery -- Fiction Didactic fiction Political fiction Master and servant -- Fiction African Americans -- Fiction Southern States -- Fiction Fugitive slaves -- Fiction Plantation life -- Fiction Uncle Tom (Fictitious character) -- Fiction Enslaved persons -- Fiction