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Uncle Tom's Cabin, first published in 1852, was the best-selling novel of the 19th century and a powerful catalyst for the abolitionist movement. Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel follows the lives of several African American characters, most notably the dignified and devout Uncle Tom, as they endure the brutalities of slavery in the American South. Through the contrasting fates of Tom, sold down the river to the cruel Simon Legree, and the escape of Eliza Harris across the frozen Ohio River, Stowe dramatized the moral horror of slavery for a wide audience.