Uncle Tom's cabin, or, Life among the lowly ; The minister's wooing ; Oldtown folks

This novel follows the story of two enslaved people named Tom and Eliza. It presents characters to whom readers can connect, and it reveals the evils of slavery in an impactful way. An obviously moralistic work, it was written by Harriet Beecher Stowe in an attempt to move people to action in order to bring an end to slavery in America. According to legend, Abraham Lincoln said when he met her, “So you are the little woman who wrote the book that started this Great War.”