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Uncle Tom’s Cabin was written by an anti-slavery activist by the name of Harriet Beecher Stowe in 1852. The death of her youngest child motivated her, as she began to fully sympathize with plight of slave mothers whose children were sold away from them. Harriet was determined to awaken the North to the wickedness of slavery but could not have foreseen the phenomenal impact and undying controversy that was to come. The South condemned the book when they