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American Stories
Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote the
most powerful American novel of the
nineteenth century. Uncle Tom’s Cabin,
a story of slavery, energized antislavery
groups in the North and antagonized
proslavery elements in the South,
polarizing the country and contributing
substantially to the coming of the
Civil War.
