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Harriet Beecher Stowe
 * Author**

1852
 * Place & Time**

Uncle Tom’s Cabin is an anti-slavery book.
 * Prior Knowledge**

Everyone. The book was to inform anti-slavery themes.
 * Audience**

- To inform people themes of anti-slavery
 * Reason**

- Uncle Tom’s Cabin illustrated strong opposition minds of Northerners about the slavery issue. - It was very influential since the anti-slavery movement spread rapidly through literature.
 * The main idea**

- Uncle Tom’s Cabin showed the impact of literature books. - It depicted the issue of slavery and strong opposition from the northern states. - It caused cultural sectionalism between the North and the South. o Southern intellectuals were offended by this book. o Southerners banned Uncle Tom’s Cabin and other abolitionist books. o Southerners constructed pro-slavery arguments and eventually hardened into southern nationalism.
 * Significance**