Uncle Toms Cabin

The novel Uncle Tom's Cabin is a story that revolves around the cruel treatments of slavery, in a time where slaves were seen more as property then human beings. Harriet Beecher Stowe, the author, allows the reader to see how slaves were treated in the United States during the mid-nineteenth century. Intentionally using the book as a way of spreading an anti-slavery campaign in order to allow people to not just know the lives of slaves in plantations, but also to allow the reader to feel their emotions and attitudes. Describing the rough lives slaves had; of being sold and abused just to f…