Harriet Beecher Stowe

La historia se centra en el relato del t o Tom, un esclavo afroamericano. La novela dramatiza la dura realidad de la esclavitud mientras muestra que el amor cristiano y la fe pueden superar algo tan destructivo como la esclavizaci n. Fue la novela m s vendida en el siglo XIX (y el segundo libro m s comprado de la poca, despu s de la Biblia). Cuando el Presidente Lincoln conoci a la autora del libro en 1862, en plena Guerra civil de Secesi n, le expres "De manera que es usted la peque a mujer, que escribi el libro que provoc esta gran guerra".

La historia se centra en el relato del t o Tom, un esclavo afroamericano. La novela dramatiza la dura realidad de la esclavitud mientras muestra que el amor cristiano y la fe pueden superar algo tan destructivo como la esclavizaci n. Fue la novela m s vendida en el siglo XIX (y el segundo libro m s comprado de la poca, despu s de la Biblia). Cuando el Presidente Lincoln conoci a la autora del libro en 1862, en plena Guerra civil de Secesi n, le expres "De manera que es usted la peque a mujer, que escribi el libro que provoc esta gran guerra".

La obra tiene la maldad y el abuso de la esclavitud como tema principal. La historia se desarolla en la cabana del Tio Tom quien nos relata la historia, un esclavo afroamericano. Nos habla de otros personajes, tanto esclavos como propietarios de ellos. La novela muestra la dura y cruel realidad de la esclavitud mientras nos ensena que el amor y la fe pueden superar algo tan atroz como la esclavizaci n de seres humanos.

Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. Published in 1852, the novel "helped lay the groundwork for the Civil War", according to Will Kaufman. Stowe, a Connecticut-born teacher at the Hartford Female Academy and an active abolitionist, featured the character of Uncle Tom, a long-suffering black slave around whom the stories of other characters revolve. The sentimental novel depicts the reality of slavery while also asserting that Christian love can overcome something as destructive as enslavement of fellow human beings. Uncle Tom's Cabin was the best-selling novel of the 19th century and the second best-selling book of that century, following the Bible. It is credited with helping fuel the abolitionist cause in the 1850s. In the first year after it was published, 300,000 copies of the book were sold in the United States; one million copies were sold in Great Britain. In 1855, three years after it was published, it was called "the most popular novel of our day." The impact attributed to the book is great, reinforced by a story that when Abraham Lincoln met Stowe at the start of the Civil War, Lincoln declared, "So this is the little lady who started this great war." The quote is apocryphal; it did not appear in print until 1896, and it has been argued that "The long-term durability of Lincoln's greeting as an anecdote in literary studies and Stowe scholarship can perhaps be explained in part by the desire among many contemporary intellectuals ... to affirm the role of literature as an agent of social change." The book and the plays it inspired helped popularize a number of stereotypes about black people. These include the affectionate, dark-skinned "mammy"; the "pickaninny" stereotype of black children; and the "Uncle Tom", or dutiful, long-suffering servant faithful to his white master or mistress. In recent years, the negative associations with Uncle Tom's Cabin have, to an extent, overshadowed the historical impact of the book as a "vital antislavery tool."

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