This is an anti-slavery novel published by American writer Harriet Beecher Stowe (Mrs Stowe) on 1852. The views on African-Americans and American slavery in this novel have had a far-reaching impact and, to some extent, exacerbated the regional conflicts that led to the American Civil War.

Mrs. Stowe was born in Connecticut and is a hartford Women's College (Hartford)

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At the same time, she is also an active abolitionist. This book revolves around the story of Uncle Tom, a long-suffering slave, and describes his experiences with people around him, both slaves and slave owners. This sentimental novel profoundly depicts the cruel nature of slavery; And believe that Christian love can overcome all kinds of harm caused by enslavement of human compatriots.

Uncle Tom's Cabin is the best-selling novel in19th century (and the second best-selling novel, second only to the best-selling Bible). It is considered as a major reason for the rise of abolitionism in1850s, and it sold 300,000 copies in the United States in its first year of publication. Uncle Tom's Cabin had such a great influence on American society that when Lincoln met Mrs. Stowe at the beginning of the Civil War, he said, "You are the little woman who started a big war." Later this sentence was quoted by many writers.

Uncle Tom's Cabin and various scripts inspired by it have also promoted the emergence of a large number of black stereotypes, many of which are widely known today. For example, the kind black nanny, the prototype of black children, the patient and loyal uncle Tom who is obedient to the white master. In recent decades, these negative elements in Uncle Tom's Cabin have weakened the historical role of this book as an "important anti-slavery tool" to some extent.