A review by blueflatfoot
Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

5.0

Stowe brilliantly concretizes the culture and the ideas surrounding slavery in America leading up to the war. Having just read and listened to lectures on the history and arguments surrounding this institution, I am impressed by her ability to weave the arguments prevalent in the culture of that period into moving fiction. Her dialog is intelligent and well written. The events of the story illustrate the ideas. This is an emotionally moving and intellectual novel.