What effect did Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel uncle tom's cabin have on antislavery and pro-slavery feeling throughout the country?

Answer 1

Uncle Tom's Cabin did what other anti-slavery works of literature did not, humanized the slave. The South however claimed that Stowe had fabricated unrealistic, one-sided images of southern slavery

Answer 2

Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin" contributed significantly to increasing antislavery sentiment in the North. The novel humanized enslaved individuals and shed light on the cruelties of slavery, prompting many Northerners to join the abolitionist cause. In the South, the book stirred debate and deepened pro-slavery sentiments as proponents sought to defend the institution of slavery.

Answer 3

the north saw what the south was doing to the slaves and started to dislike slavery.

the south was like that is not how we treat our slaves

Answer 4

It recruited many more Northerners to the cause of Abolitionism, and encouraged the operating of the Underground Railroad - the safe-house system that smuggled fugitive slaves into Canada.

Answer 5

nothing