Uncle Toms Cabin or Life Among the Lowly is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe Published in 1852 the novel helped lay the groundwork for the Civil War according to Will Kaufman Uncle Toms Cabin was the best-selling novel of the 19th century and the second best-selling book of that century following the Bible It is credited with helping fuel the abolitionist cause in the 1850s In the first year after it was published 30...