A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin

In 1852 Harriet Beecher Stowe published her abolitionist novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin, an instant classic acclaimed by Northerners and other abolitionist readers but Southerners, - slave owners - attacked the book's accuracy. The following year Stowe responded with this detailed, and rapidly best-selling, defense of her work, citing the real-life equivalents and evidence for her characters.