Summary: Uncle Tom’s Cabin (Harriet Beecher Stowe)

Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe is an anti-slavery novel; it was first published in America in 1852. Uncle Tom’s Cabin is also known as "Life among the Lowly".

It is believed that this was the novel which paved the way for the revolutionary changes in American society and helped lay the groundwork for the Civil War.