Uncle Tom’s Cabin: A Solution to Oppression and Racism

“Anti-Tom” literature was a nineteenth century pro-slavery genre for writing novels. The same kind of theme was utilized for other sorts of literary works, especially those written in response to Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel, Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Also referred to as “plantation literature,” the writings were generally written by authors from the Southern regions of the United States, which was . Novels and other literary works that fall under the anti-Tom genre would attempt to express slavery as being either beneficial to African Americans, or that the evils of slavery as represented in Stowe’s novel were overblown and incorrect. Published in 1852, Uncle Tom’s Cabin would eventually become one of the most important novels of American literature, as it revealed slavery as a thing that was cruel and unjust. Harriet Beecher Stowe was able to send a message to countless readers from the nineteenth century to the present by preaching that it is the spirit of people that must change in order to really abolish slavery.