Uncle Tom's Cabin Young Folk's Edition

I think that the it's Harriet Beecher Stowe and I think the legend is that Lincoln said so... Uncle Tom's Cabin put a face on slavery and galvanized the North.

Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin was the first time most whites had ever read anything about what it was like to be a slave.

I put in you ready? origin of uncle tom And it gives it right there Comes from the title character of harriet beecher stowe's novel uncle tom's cabin manual,

I think it's Gone with the Wind is obviously, I suppose with Uncle Tom's Cabin, they're kind of two great literary bookends that surround the history of the Civil War in America and its aftermath.

Our novels like Uncle Tom's Cabin, Frederick Douglass' kind of speeches, all this kind of thing, is this having an effect? ... So it clearly does have an effect. I mean, Uncle Tom's Cabin was a publishing sensation. And what Uncle Tom's Cabin does is to put into the homes of middle class, mid Victorian, Northeastern Americans, confront them with the reality of a system of enslavement that breaks up families that violates women in every sense.

the book is one of those slave narratives that those sort of narratives play a huge part in kind of rousing the hearts and souls of kind of Northern opinion in the years before the Civil War don't they? Uncle Tom's cabin type.

You've got young black men saying in Uncle Tom, I didn't why? Who's Tom Sowell? Why wasn't I taught about him when I was growing up?

Uncle Tom's Cabin

The impact of Uncle Tom's cabin cannot be underestimated. It was new. It was shocking.

As it was, let's remember, the Ohio River had become the gateway to freedom for black people on the slave state side of the river, and of course gave rise to the Underground Railroad as so vividly portrayed in Uncle Tom's Cabin.

I'm the Simon Legree in all of this, and it's not justified.