He also played a key role in Harriet Beecher Stowe’s celebrated 1852 novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin, which historians have argued helped trigger the Civil War through its depiction of the subhuman ...

In Uncle Tom's Cabin, Stowe made millions of Americans see slavery for the first time through the eyes of its victims.

Her popular novel, Uncle Tom'sCabin, published a decade before the Civil War, helped change the way many Americans felt about slavery, and is forever linked to the abolitionist "fever." ...