Uncle Tom's Cabin

Uncle Tom's Cabin brought the evils of slavery to the conscience and hearts of the American people by its moving portrayal of slave experience. In scenes of great dramatic power Harriet Beecher Stow shows us the human effects of an economic system in which slaves were property. Still controversial today, the novel is abrasive in its demand for change yet also brilliant in its deployment of dialogue, with great comic skill and powerful pathos.