Uncle Tom's Cabin

Book Report on Uncle Tom’s Cabin The book Uncle Tom’s Cabin, published in 1852 by multiple publishers and put into more then twenty languages was written by abolitionist Harriet Beecher Stowe. Stowe was born in 1811 in Litchfield, Connecticut into a family of clergymen and therefore was highly religious. Her mother died early in her life so her oldest sister Catharine reared her. The family moved to Ohio when Harriet was twenty-one because her father …

…purpose of this book was to nakedly expose the institution of slavery to America and the rest of the world with hopes that something would be done about it. To achieve this she showed us individual instances of slavery in a country that prided itself on its Christianity and its laws protecting freedom. She revealed to us how absurd slavery is "beneath the shadow of American laws and the shadow of the cross of Christ."