Uncle Tom's Cabin

Uncle Tom’s Cabin is about a black slave that is sold many times in the book with no problem. He is one of the few slaves that can read and he makes a very big impact on a white girl that he saves from drowning. I read a short version of this book in seventh grade and it was on of the best books I ever read. The short version was hard to read because it was in old English with many grammatical mistakes. Harriet Beecher Stowe does a great job of representing the life of slaves back in the 1700s and 1800s and she makes Tom seem like the hero of the book. Tom may not have powers or super strength but his intelligence is what makes him a hero in this book. This book is what started the Civil War. Abraham Lincoln says, “So you’re the little lady who wrote the book that made this Great War.” Stowe’s book showed the evils of slavery throughout the world. She showed people how horrible it was that her people were being treated like animals. This is a book that should at least be heard of by anyone that knows about racism and slavery.