Setä Tuomon tupa

by Harriet Beecher Stowe

"Setä Tuomon tupa" by Harriet Beecher Stowe is an anti-slavery novel published in 1852. This influential work depicts the horrors of slavery through the story of Uncle Tom, a long-suffering enslaved man around whom other characters' lives revolve. Written to show how Christian love could overcome slavery, the novel became America's best-selling book of the nineteenth century after the Bible. It profoundly shaped attitudes toward slavery and helped fuel the abolitionist movement in the 1850s.