The best-selling antislavery novel of its century
What it is about
Uncle Tom is an enslaved man of deep faith who is sold away from his family in Kentucky. The book follows him down the Mississippi River into the deeper South. Alongside his story, a young woman named Eliza flees north with her child to escape being sold.
Who will enjoy it
Readers interested in American history and the roots of the abolition movement.
What you will get
An important and influential novel. Some of its portrayals are now seen as stereotypes, so it reads best with some context.
Uncle Tom's Cabin Facts: Pages, Genre and Setting
Genre
Classics · Slavery · Faith · Abolition
Length
450 pages · ≈ 13 h
More about this book
Characters
Tom, Eliza, the people who own them and the people who help them.
Setting
The American South and North in the years before the Civil War.
What makes it different
A novel written to change public opinion that became one of the biggest bestsellers of its time.
Feel
Emotional, sermon-like and heavy.
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