The cabin where Henson lived while he was enslaved no longer exists, but a cabin on the Riley farm erroneously thought to be the Henson Cabin was purchased by the Montgomery County, Maryland, government in 2006. Stowe's novel lent its name to Henson's home- Uncle Tom's Cabin Historic Site, near Dresden, Ontario, Canada-which since the 1940s has been a museum. When Stowe's work became a best-seller, Henson republished his memoirs as The Memoirs of Uncle Tom and traveled on lecture tours extensively in the United States and Europe. Stowe acknowledged in 1853 that Henson's writings inspired Uncle Tom's Cabin. Henson escaped slavery in 1830 by fleeing to the Province of Upper Canada (now Ontario), where he helped other fugitive slaves settle and become self-sufficient, and where he wrote his memoirs. Henson, a formerly enslaved black man, had lived and worked on a 3,700-acre (15В km 2) plantation in North Bethesda, Maryland, owned by Isaac Riley. Stowe was partly inspired to create Uncle Tom's Cabin by the slave narrative The Life of Josiah Henson, Formerly a Slave, Now an Inhabitant of Canada, as Narrated by Himself (1849). Much of the book was composed in Brunswick, Maine, where her husband, Calvin Ellis Stowe, taught at his alma mater, Bowdoin College.ДЄn engraving of Harriet Beecher Stowe from 1872, based on an oil painting by Alonzo Chappel Stowe, a Connecticut-born teacher at the Hartford Female Seminary and an active abolitionist, wrote the novel as a response to the passage, in 1850, of the second Fugitive Slave Act.

9 Creation and popularization of stereotypes.

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In recent years, the negative associations with Uncle Tom's Cabin have, to an extent, overshadowed the historical impact of the book as a 'vital antislavery tool'. These include the affectionate, dark-skinned mammy the pickaninny stereotype of black children and the namesake character type of ' Uncle Tom', describing a dutiful, long-suffering servant faithful to his white master or mistress. The book and the plays it inspired helped popularize a number of stereotypes about black people. to affirm the role of literature as an agent of social change.' The impact attributed to the book is great, reinforced by a story that when Abraham Lincoln met Stowe at the start of the Civil War, he declared, 'So this is the little lady who started this great war.' The quote isДЄpocryphal it did not appear in print until 1896, and it has been argued that 'the long-term durability of Lincoln's greeting as an anecdote in literary studies and Stowe scholarship can perhaps be explained in part by the desire among many contemporary intellectuals.

In 1855, three years after it was published, it was called 'the most popular novel of our day'. Eight power presses, running incessantly, could barely keep up with the demand. In the first year after it was published, 300,000 copies of the book were sold in the United States one million copies were sold in Great Britain. It is credited with helping fuel the abolitionist cause in the 1850s. Uncle Tom's Cabin was the best-selling novel and the second best-selling book of the 19th century, following the Bible. The title page illustrates a modest log cabin inhabited by a black family. The sentimental novel depicts the reality of slavery while also asserting that Christian love can overcome slavery. A teacher at the Hartford Female Seminary and an active abolitionist, she featured the character of Uncle Tom in the novel, a long-suffering black slave around whom the stories of other characters revolve. Stowe, a Connecticut-born woman of English descent was part of the religious Beecher family. Published in two volumes in 1852, the novel had a profound effect on attitudes toward African Americans and slavery in the U.S., and is said to have 'helped lay the groundwork for the Civil War.' is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin or, Life Among the Lowly.

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