Also known as: “Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly” Written and fact-checked by The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica Encyclopaedia Britannica's editors oversee subject areas in which they have extensive knowledge, whether from years of experience gained by working on that content ...
Uncle Tom’s Cabin is an abolitionist novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe that was published in serialized form in the United States in 1851–52 and in book form in 1852. It achieved wide-reaching popularity, particularly among white Northern readers, through
Uncle Tom, title character in the antislavery novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin (serialized 1851–52, published as a book in 1852) by Harriet Beecher Stowe. Initially, the character Tom—called “Uncle” Tom in the Southern fashion of showing respect for an older