Uncle+Tom's+Cabin

=__Uncle Toms Cabin__=
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 * Uncle Tom's Cabin is a very famous book written by Harriet Beecher Stowe. The book was published March 20, 1853. The book Uncle Tom's Cabin is based on how people treat African Americans and also is about Slavery in America. This book had a powerful impact on The Civil War.** **It also changed many people's thoughts about slavery and African Americans.**

**__The Autho__r**

 * Harriet Beecher Stowe was born June 14, 1811 and died July 1, 1896. She was the 7th child to a family. She wrote at least ten adult novels but she is most known for her first, Uncle Tom's Cabin which she wrote in 1895. It began as a serial for the Washington anti-slavery weekly and it focused public interest on the problems of slavery. While writing this book, Stowe drew on her personal experience: she was familiar with slavery, the antislavery movement, and the underground railroad because Kentucky, across the Ohio River from Cincinnati, Ohio, where Stowe had lived, was a slave state.**

__Characters__

 * There are many characters in this book. The most important ones are Uncle Tom, Eliza, George, the Shelbys, Aunt Chloe, and Cassy. Uncle Tom is the slave that works for his master(Mr. Shelby) and his wife (Mrs. Shelby). Eliza is one of the servant girls for Mr. and Mrs. Shelby. Eliza has a husband George and they have a baby and name him Harry. The Shelbys are a white family that own Eliza, George, Uncle Tom, and Aunt Chloe. Aunt Chloe is Uncle Tom's wife who is the Shelby's cook and Last Cassy is Eliza's mother.

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__Following Uncle Tom__

 * Uncle Tom is a respectful quiet slave who does not get mad at his masters that he has throughout the story. His first master was a kind Kentuky planter named Shelby. Uncle Tom was very blessed to be with Shelby. Then he becomes the property of a rich and noble man from New Orleans named St. Clare. Everything goes fine with him too until St. Clare dies. Uncle Tom is then sold to a Yankee-born man named Simon Legree. Simon owns a cotton plantation located in Louisiana. Legree is an evil man and only cares about how much money he has. He does not care one bit about his slaves and treats them worst than his dogs. He is described as a man dog in the book with his incredible scent and violence. One day he tells Tom to whip a slave women who is not working hard enough for him and Tom refuses. He is then whipped by Legree and Tom dies because of all the hurts that he gets.**

**__The importance of the book__**

 * This book is one of the most influential novels ever written, and the most effective political book. Just in the first year it sold 300,000 copies in the United States and a million in England. As you can see this book was a book almost everybody got hold of and read. This book is now so important because of the way it changed the Civil War.**

** __How Uncle Tom's Cabin made a change__**

 * The civil war was all about slavery and if America should have it or not. This book was very influential about the war because it showed truly what slavery was like. It made people realize that slavery was not only a lazy process but also a cruel and harsh one. When people read the book most but not all realized the bad things about slavery and turned against it. Some others thought this was nonsense and went on believing what they believed before about slavery. It changed the Civil War because some people thought that slavery was ok and good until they read Harriet's story and believe about slavery and decided that she was write.**

References:
__http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncle_Tom%27s_Cabin__ March 15, 2009 __http://www.cliffsnotes.com/WileyCDA/LitNote/Uncle-Tom-s-Cabin-About-the-Novel-List-of-Characters.id-155,pageNum-8.html__ April 10, 2009 __http://www.online-literature.com/stowe/uncletom/__ April 13,2009 __http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncle_Tom's_Cabin__ April 13,2009 __http://www.sonofthesouth.net/slavery/african-american-art/uncle-tom-cabin-topsy.htm__ April 13,2009 __http://ww2.chandler.k12.az.us/san-tan-academy/uncletom_unit/index.htm__ April 13,2009 __http://einhornpress.com/images/UNCLE%20TOM%20IMAGE001.jpg__ April 13,2009