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2.  Written and published by Harriet Beecher Stowe, an American author, social reformer, and abolitionist  First published in 1851 in an anti-slavery newspaper called The National Era,  Published in the form of a book in 1852 Image retrieved: http://novakeo.com/?p=7451 http://novakeo.com/?p=7451

3. Image Retrieved: http://www.sonofthesouth.net/slaver y/african-american-art/uncle-tom- cabin-topsy.htm http://www.sonofthesouth.net/slaver y/african-american-art/uncle-tom- cabin-topsy.htm  Uncle Tom sold by the Shelby’s because they need money  While on the slave boat headed down the Mississippi he saves a white girl, befriends her and is bought by her Father  Girl dies, Father murdered before he can free Tom and sold to Simon Legree  Tom is treated horribly and beaten, eventually leading to his death

4.  Helped the abolitionist movement by making many Northerners realize the reality of slavery and the cruelty of the Fugitive Slave Law  Lead to many perceived stereotypes of blacks throughout America  Outraged Southerners and slave owners, many claimed the novel to be criminal and slanderous

5.  Stowe was born in1811 and died in1896  She had 3 sisters and 5 brothers  She married to Calvin Ellis Stowe in 1836  She first encountered slaver in Cincinnati in 1832  Had a servant girl who she thought was a freed slave until her previous owner started hunting for her, her brother drove the girl to a friend’s house overnight to hide

6.  Merriman, C.D. (2007). Harriet beecher stowe-biography and works. Retrieved from http://www.online-literature.com/stowe/ http://www.online-literature.com/stowe/  Liberton, D. (1996). Stowe's uncle tom's cabin. Retrieved from http://bradley.bradley.edu/~dlb/dlstowe.htm l http://bradley.bradley.edu/~dlb/dlstowe.htm l  Danzer, G. A. et. al., (2003). The americans. Boston, Massachusetts: McDougall Littell.