Uncle Tom's Cabin Author:Harriet Beecher Stowe Few books influenced American history as dramatically as did this story of slavery in the Old South. "Uncle Tom's Cabin" appeared just as public indignation over the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 was at its height. The simple human story of Uncle Tom and his friends succeeded, where hundreds of treatises had failed, in fanning the flames of the a... more »ntislavery movement into an inferno of opposition...« less