This Day In History - Uncle Tom's Cabin Published 1852

Uncle Tom's Cabin Published 1852

Saturday, March 20, 2021

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Event Description

Harriet Beecher Stowe's anti-slavery novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin, is published. The novel sold 300,000 copies within three months and wasso widely read that when President Abraham Lincoln met Stowe in 1862, he reportedly said, "So this is the little lady who made this big war."