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Uncle Tom's CabinUncle Tom's Cabin
The lives of enslaved people in the American South, above all the faithful Tom and the fugitive Eliza, are followed with unflinching compassion in the novel that galvanized a nation against slavery. The most influential American book of its century.
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The novel that helped change history, sentimental by design and devastating in effect, a landmark of conscience whose impact is impossible to overstate. Essential to understanding America.
SettingThe American South, 1850s
The pre-Civil-War American South and its slave economy, and a nation being torn in two over the question of human bondage.