Uncle Tom's Cabin is an anti-slavery novel by the American writer Harriet Beecher Stowe, first serialized in a newspaper in 1851 and 1852 and then published as a book in March 1852. It tells of the enslaved man Uncle Tom, who is sold away from his family in Kentucky and suffers under a cruel master in Louisiana, while another enslaved woman, Eliza, escapes to the North with her child. The book was a huge bestseller in the United States and Britain, and it made many readers in the North more hostile to slavery, angering the South. Later critics have objected to its racial stereotypes and the term Uncle Tom, now used as an insult, has complex origins. It was among the best-selling novels of the 19th century.
Before and after
- 1852Construction of Victoria and Albert Museum
- from 17 January 1852 to 31 May 1902South African Republic
- 3 February 1852Battle of Caseros
- 21 February 1852Death of Nikolai Gogol
- 20 March 1852Publication of Uncle Tom's Cabin
- 25 June 1852Birth of Antoni Gaudí
- 30 August 1852Birth of Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff
- 11 September 1852Revolution of 11 September 1852
- 25 November 1852Earthquake in Bandanaira, Maluku, Indonesia
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