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About This Novel
"Uncle Tom's Cabin" (1852) is the first "black novel" and created a new genre of "black novel". By describing the fate of the upright old black slave Tom and other characters, the novel exposes the brutality of black slavery and the suffering of black people in the southern plantations of the United States, and praises the black people's struggle to resist oppression and fight for freedom. After the novel was published, it received a strong response and effectively promoted the anti-slavery struggle in the United States. "Uncle Tom's Cabin" had such a huge impact on American society that in the early days of the Civil War, when Lincoln met with Mrs. Stowe, he said: "You are the little woman who started a great war." Later, this sentence was quoted by many writers.
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