How did Uncle Tom's Cabin relate to the civil war?

Answer 1

The novel of Uncle Tom's Cabin was written a full ten years before the US Civil War began. In the 19th century with slow communications, ten years is a very long time. It's impact on the war was minimal to none. Also, Harriet Beecher Stowe the abolitionist blamed the North and the South for the institution of slavery. The book sold well but it was a novel, not a documentary. Slavery was an evil but Uncle Tom's Cabin did not make 300,000 Northern soldiers lose their lives.

Answer 2

Uncle Tom's Cabin, the novel, played a role in the Civil War greatly. It did so because Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote the book right before the Civil War started. She was an abolitionist, which means she was against slavery, and she wrote the book so that the North would understand how badly the South were treating their slaves, but she did actually exaggerate in some parts of the book. I believe she knew all about slaves because her parents owned slaves.

The North thought the book was interesting and got many Northerners thinking about slavery and how devastating it really was. The South took it as an attack on the South as a whole. Abe Lincoln claims that Harriet was the little girl who started this big war.
When Abraham Lincoln met the author of Uncle Tom's Cabin (Harriet Beecher Stowe) he made it clear to her that her book caused the Civil War. The people of the North were very uncomfortable with slavery, but until they read that book, they were fairly ignorant about the daily lives that Southern slaves lived.

Uncle Tom's Cabin was circulated through the United States more than any other book, except The Bible. That fact is not made clear through the book sales figures. Books were shared frequently at that time in our history. The most accurate way of determining how many American read it is to take the sales figures and times them by 10. Ten readers per book.

Answer 3

The author wrote about how slavery was really terrible. The people of the US did not take kindly to Harriet Beecher Stowe's idea that the entire nation was responsible for slavery. Her novel was published first as a newspaper serial. In 1862, Washington DC abolished slavery. Clearly her novel did not cause a groundswell of abolitionist support. And, President Lincoln, even as the war began spiral down to an inevitable conclusion, never identified himself as an abolitionist.

As an side, Lincoln was giving a speech in New England and was asked about the abolitionist movement. Lincoln replied that there were a few in Illinois, but we shoot them.

Answer 4

Uncle Tom's Cabin was published in 1852 by Harriet Beecher Stowe, an abolitionists. Her novel did not cause in any way the US Civil War. As an aside, Beecher and abolitionist Frederick Douglas had serious disagreements of forced colonization of former slaves outside of the US.

Answer 5

"Uncle Tom's Cabin" by Harriet Beecher Stowe played a significant role in shaping public opinion about slavery in the United States, helping to further polarize the nation along abolitionist and pro-slavery lines. The novel's portrayal of the cruelty of slavery and its impact on individuals influenced the growing anti-slavery sentiment that ultimately contributed to the outbreak of the Civil War.

Answer 6

It was a novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe, published in 1852 describing an overly harsh and inaccurate description of what it was like to be a slave in the south

Answer 7

because it viewed the life of a slave and how bad slavery was and angered the south

Answer 8

intensifying the northern dislike of slavery

Answer 9

he was a leader