Uncle Tom's Cabin

Uncle Tom's Cabin is a novel written by Harriet Beecher Stowe and published in the United States in 1852. It tells the stories of the sufferings of a number of slaves in the American South.

Wildly popular in the North before the War of Secession, it was met with outrage throughout the South. After the war, when the Confederate States was established, the book was banned throughout that country long before the Freedom Party set up an authoritarian regime under President Jake Featherston, even after President James Longstreet manumitted the slaves. Illicit copies of the book circulated among educated blacks in the CS.