Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel about slavery, “Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” was published in book form after being serialized in the abolitionist newspaper The National Era.

George Aiken’s manuscript of “Uncle Tom’s Cabin: A Domestic Drama in 4 Acts,” 1852. An original copy of the book “Twelve Years a Slave” by Solomon Northup is seen on a table as County ...

In Uncle Tom's Cabin, Stowe made millions of Americans see slavery for the first time through the eyes of its victims.