Harriet Beecher Stowe was born in Litchfield, Connecticut, in 1811, the seventh child of a well-known Congregational minister, Lyman Beecher. The family moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, where she met and married Calvin Stowe, a professor of theology, in 1836. Living just across the Ohio River from the slave-holding state of Kentucky, and becoming aware of the plight of escaping slaves, led her to write Uncle Tom’s Cabin, published in book form in 1842. She wrote the novel amidst the difficulties of bringing up a large family of six children. The runaway success of Uncle Tom’s Cabin made its author a well-known publish figure. Stowe died in 1896.
La obra tiene la esclavitud como tema central. La historia se centra en el relato del tío Tom, un esclavo afroamericano en torno al cual se mueven otros personajes, tanto esclavos como propietarios de ellos. La novela dramatiza la dura realidad de la esclavitud mientras muestra que...
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