Article: Publication of Uncle Tom's Cabin.(Brief Article)

June 5th, 1851

THE MOST INFLUENTIAL American novel ever written appeared first in weekly instalments between June 1851 and April 1852 in the National Era, a Washington DC periodical with an anti-slavery slant. It was a sensational success and when published in book form in 1852, sold more than 300,000 copies in the first year. Some of its characters and scenes have still not entirely vanished from the general consciousness: the incorrigible Topsy, who `just growed', the sadistic slave-driver Simon Legree, Eliza's escape to freedom with her baby across the ice on the Ohio River and the goodhearted, Uncle Tom himself, whose name was to become a term of contempt. ...

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