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Essay Archive - The Effect of Uncle Tom's Cabin
The Effect of Uncle Tom's Cabin
Seldom does a one work of literature change a society or start it
down the road to cataclysmic conflict. One such catalytic work is Harriet
Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852). It is considered by many, one
the most influential American works of fiction ever published. Uncle Tom's
Cabin sold more copies than any other previous fiction title. It sold five
thousand copies in its first two days, fifty thousand copies in eight weeks,
three hundred thousand copies in a year and over a million copies in its
first sixteen months. What makes this accomplishment even more amazing is
that....
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