Stowe, Harriet Beecher
"La case de l'oncle Tom; ou, vie des nègres en Amérique" by Harriet Beecher Stowe is an anti-slavery novel published in 1852. Written in response to the Fugitive Slave Act, the novel depicts the horrors of slavery through the story of Uncle Tom, a long-suffering enslaved man around whom other characters' lives revolve. The book became a sensation, selling 300,000 copies in its first year and profoundly influencing American attitudes toward slavery. It is credited with helping fuel the abolitionist movement and laying groundwork for the Civil War. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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