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"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.

"Uncle Tom's Cabin", also translated as "The Record of a Black Slave" and "Uncle Tom's Cabin", focuses on depicting the tragic fate of Tom, a black slave who believed in Christianity and had a noble spirit of sacrifice, under an unequal social system, thereby revealing the sinful nature of the slavery system. Once the novel was published, it immediately aroused strong responses from all walks of life, promoted the anti-slavery sentiment of the American people to a certain extent, and thus became one of the factors leading to the outbreak of the American Civil War.

"Uncle Tom's Cabin" is an important work by the famous American writer Mrs. Stowe. This novel is not only a classic in the history of world literature, but also has a profound impact on American history and the process of world civilization.

"Uncle Tom's Cabin", also translated as "The Death of a Negro," is an anti-slavery novel published by American writer Harriet Beecher Stowe (Mrs. Stowe) in 1852. The novel's views on African Americans and American slavery had a profound impact. It is considered to be a major factor in stimulating the rise of abolitionism in the 1850s, and to some extent intensified the regional conflicts that led to the First World War. In the first year of its publication, 300,000 copies were sold in the United States. The book was also very popular abroad. In the UK, 40 publishing houses published the book, with sales reaching more than 1.5 Million copies. At the same time, it has also been warmly welcomed by readers from all over the world, and has been highly praised by famous writers such as Tolstoy, Turgenev, George Sand, Heine, Dickens, etc. It has been adapted into plays, musicals, etc. And has been performed on stages across the United States for many years. It has been translated into more than 40 languages ​​​​in the world.