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    Uncle Tom's Cabin tells the intertwining stories of the Harris family and Uncle Tom. Mr. Shelby must sell Tom to pay debts, while Eliza fears her son Harry will be sold and escapes with him to Ohio. George also runs away. Meanwhile, Little Eva befriends Tom and he is purchased by her father, but is later sold to the cruel Simon Legree and beaten to death. Cassy joins the Harrises in Canada. Harriet Beecher Stowe was born in 1811 into a family of ministers. She wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin in 1852, which stirred controversy but sold over a million copies in its first year and influenced the Civil War. Stowe struggled to

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    Uncle Tom's Cabin tells the intertwining stories of the Harris family and Uncle Tom. Mr. Shelby must sell Tom to pay debts, while Eliza fears her son Harry will be sold and escapes with him to Ohio. George also runs away. Meanwhile, Little Eva befriends Tom and he is purchased by her father, but is later sold to the cruel Simon Legree and beaten to death. Cassy joins the Harrises in Canada. Harriet Beecher Stowe was born in 1811 into a family of ministers. She wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin in 1852, which stirred controversy but sold over a million copies in its first year and influenced the Civil War. Stowe struggled to

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    Uncle Tom's Cabin tells the intertwining stories of the Harris family and Uncle Tom. Mr. Shelby must sell Tom to pay debts, while Eliza fears her son Harry will be sold and escapes with him to Ohio. George also runs away. Meanwhile, Little Eva befriends Tom and he is purchased by her father, but is later sold to the cruel Simon Legree and beaten to death. Cassy joins the Harrises in Canada. Harriet Beecher Stowe was born in 1811 into a family of ministers. She wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin in 1852, which stirred controversy but sold over a million copies in its first year and influenced the Civil War. Stowe struggled to

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    Summary of the Novel

    Several stories intertwine throughout Uncle Tom’s Cabin, but they all center on two
    main plots. One plot focuses on the Harris family, the other on Uncle Tom.

    Mr. Shelby is a considerate master, but he must sell Tom to Haley, the slave trader, to
    pay off some debts. Eliza, Mrs. Shelby’s servant, rightly fears that her son Harry will
    also be sold to Haley. She escapes to Ohio, taking Harry with her. Along the way, Eliza
    is assisted by Senator and Mrs. Bird, as well as a Quaker community. George Harris,
    Eliza’s husband, runs away too after learning that his master refuses to lend him any
    longer to Mr. Wilson, a generous factory owner. The Harris family eventually reaches
    the safety of Canada, after being pursued unsuccessfully by slave catchers.

    Meanwhile, St. Clare purchases Tom from Haley after Little Eva befriends the pious
    slave. Miss Ophelia, St. Clare’s cousin from New England, visits and manages the St.
    Clare household in New Orleans. She also takes in Topsy as her ward. Eva dies after a
    prolonged illness, and a mournful St. Clare decides to free Tom. St. Clare is murdered,
    however, before he can draw up the papers. Tom is sold to Simon Legree, who runs a
    plantation in Louisiana. Legree beats Tom to death when the slave refuses to confess
    the whereabouts of Cassy and Emmeline, two of Legree’s slaves who have run away.
    Cassy joins the Harrises in Canada, and they relocate to Africa.

    Estimated Reading Time


    Uncle Tom’s Cabin is 451 pages long, and should take approximately 15-18 hours to
    read. The book consists of 45 chapters, and reading breaks can be taken after every
    two or three chapters.

    The Life and Work of Harriet Beecher Stowe


    Harriet Beecher Stowe was born on June 14, 1811, in Litchfield, Connecticut. She was
    raised in a family of ministers, two of them quite famous in their time: her father, Lyman
    Beecher, and her brother, Henry Ward Beecher. In fact, six of her seven brothers were
    ministers and she even married a clergyman, Calvin Stowe. Two of her sisters,
    Catharine and Isabella, became actively involved in reform movements, including
    education and women’s rights.

    Stowe herself became known as the celebrated author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Written in
    1852, nine years prior to the Civil War, the book stirred up much controversy among
    both Southerners and Northerners for its attack on slavery. Even then, the book quickly
    became a best-seller, with one million copies sold within the first year of its publication.
    Afterwards, upon meeting Stowe at the White House in 1862, Abraham Lincoln
    supposedly quipped: “So this is the little lady who wrote the book that made this great
    war.”

    Prior to this renown, Stowe aided her sister Catharine at the Hartford Female Seminary
    from 1824 to 1832. The family moved to Cincinnati, Ohio in 1832 when Lyman Beecher
    became the director of the Lane Theological Seminary. Here, Stowe came into contact
    with such abolitionists, or anti-slavery people, as Theodore Weld and Salmon Chase.
    She also met her husband Calvin, who was a professor of religion at the school. They
    married in 1836.

    Stowe developed an early interest in writing and began to publish her work in 1833. Ten
    years later, a collection of her short stories entitled The Mayflowerappeared. The task of
    writing, however, was never easy for her. She constantly had to find a balance between
    her life as an author and as a wife and a mother to seven children. As she put it: “I
    mean to have money enough to have my house kept in the best manner and yet to have
    time for reflection and that preparation for the education of my children which every
    mother needs.”

    The Stowes moved and traveled a great deal. In 1850, they returned from the Midwest
    to New England, where Calvin taught at Bowdoin College in Maine. The family relocated
    to Andover, Massachusetts in 1852, and then to Hartford, Connecticut in 1864. They
    also maintained a summer residence in Florida from 1868 to 1884. At three intervals
    during the 1850s, Stowe journeyed to Europe.
    Much of these experiences contributed to Stowe’s prolific writing. She published four
    novels about the New England region: The Minister’s Wooing (1859), The Pearl of Orr’s
    Island (1862), Oldtown Folks (1869), and Poganuc People (1878). Sunny Memories of
    Foreign Lands (1854) was gleaned from her European travels, and Palmetto-
    Leaves (1873) from her insights on Florida. Stowe also wrote for several magazines,
    such as the Atlantic Monthly, as well as other volumes of essays, novels, and histories.
    None of these projects, however, received the widespread notice that made Uncle
    Tom’s Cabin one of the most popular novels in the nineteenth century. Harriet Beecher
    Stowe died on July 1, 1896.

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