5. Uncle Tom’s Cabin
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Why do you think that Uncle Tom’s Cabin has caused so much controversy since it originally began to be published in 1851?
Scan the Blurb.
In June 1851, Harriet Beecher Stowe began to publish installments of her antislavery novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin in the newspaper The National Era. The content of the novel contributed to the growing antislavery sentiment in the United States and the United Kingdom.