American writer Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin" (with the subtitle of "Life among the Lowly").

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The Uncle Tom pictured in this 1897 illustration is the main characters in American writer Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin" (with the subtitle of "Life among the Lowly"). The novel was first published in 1852 and is credited as laying the groundwork for the Civil War. The tales in the novel revolve around Uncle Tom, a long-suffering black slave—pictured here in front of his cabin.

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