Uncle Tom''s Cabin

According to many sources, it was the book "Uncle Tom''s Cabin" that served as one of the impulses that moved the unshakable foundations and unleashed the Civil War in the United States. And yet - it brought worldwide fame to the American writer Harriet Beecher Stowe. In the novel, with an amazing brightness, the inhumanity of slavery is depicted, when a person becomes an object of purchase and sale, and his life is worth nothing. The characters of the work - slave Uncle Tom, mulat Harris and his courageous wife Eliza, concubine Cassie - are extremely vital and colorful.