Harriet Beecher Stowe’s anti-slavery novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin was published in Boston, quickly becoming a bestseller and a powerful tool in the abolitionist movement. The book vividly portrayed the cruelty of slavery and helped shift public opinion in the North. Its impact was so profound that Abraham Lincoln reportedly called Stowe “the little lady who made this great war.”
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