American Literature
and humanitarian concerns for the welfare of enslaved people. The four year war pitted one section of the country against another and almost
destroyed the United States. Uncle Tom's Cabin contributed to the outbreak of war by personalizing the political and economic arguments about
slavery. Stowe's informal, conversational writing style inspired people in a way that political speeches, tracts and newspapers accounts could not.
Uncle Tom's Cabin helped many 19thcentury Americans determine what kind of country they wanted. Immediately after its publication, Uncle Tom's
Cabin was both lauded as an achievement and attacked as inaccurate: The most liberal abolitionists felt the book was not strong enough in its call
to immediately end slavery, disliked Stowe's tacit support of the colonization movement, and suggested that Stowe's main character Tom was not
forceful enough
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