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The Man Who Became Uncle Tom. Harriet Beecher Stowe said that Josiah Henson’s life had inspired her most famous character. But Henson longed to be recognized by his own name, and for his own...
In the novel, several of the Black characters escape to freedom, but Uncle Tom dies at the hands of a vicious slave owner when he refuses to turn on two enslaved women he helped escape. Tom’s death inspires the slave owner’s son to free his slaves in remembrance of Tom’s selfless act.
Essentially an explainer text, the Key addressed the critical attacks and assured readers that Uncle Tom’s Cabin was, in fact, based on reality. It provided background for all Stowe’s controversial characters—including the titular character himself.
Henson's autobiography, The Life of Josiah Henson, Formerly a Slave, Now an Inhabitant of Canada, as Narrated by Himself (1849), is believed to have inspired the title character of Harriet Beecher Stowe's 1852 novel Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852). [1]
On every page, Stowe made a crystal-clear point: blacks were human, and to enslave them was evil. That’s why in the mid-nineteenth century Southerners savagely attacked “Uncle Tom Cabin” as a dangerously radical book.
Published in 1852, Uncle Tom’s Cabin galvanized abolitionists across the country and became the second-best-selling book in the U.S. during the 19th century. Only the Bible ranked higher.
Uncle Tom’s Cabin, novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe, published in serialized form in the United States in 1851–52 and in book form in 1852. An abolitionist novel, it achieved wide popularity, particularly among white readers in the North, by vividly dramatizing the experience of slavery.
When Uncle Tom's Cabin was published in 1852, the anti-slavery novel flew off the shelves. Seventeen printing presses ran 24-hours a day to keep up with demand, making it the best-selling novel of the 19th century.
The climax of the story really comes when Uncle Tom is asked to reveal where two slave women are hiding, who had been sexually abused by their master. And he refuses.
Professor of English Susanna Ashton’s “A Plausible Man: The True Story of the Escaped Slave Who Inspired Uncle Tom’s Cabin” publishes August 6, amplifying a story that has otherwise gone untold.