Uncle Tom's CabinBy: Harriet Beecher Stowe Series: Everyman's Library CLASSICS Published in 1851, Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel rapidly became world famous and remained so. A didactic and sentimental drama set among the slaves of the American South, Uncle Tom's Cabin is nevertheless a lively and forceful story. It made a major contribution to the Emancipationist cause and probably helped to sway the outcome of the Civil War. Given the history of race relations in our