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Harriet Stowe wrote the book to tell people how horrible slavery really was. The book inspired many people to fight against slavery.
On June 5, 1851, Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly began to appear in serial form in the Washington National Era, an abolitionist weekly. Harriet Beecher Stowe's anti-slavery story was published in forty installments over the next ten months. For her story Mrs. Stowe was paid $300. -
In March 1852, a Boston publisher decided to issue Uncle Tom's Cabin as a book and it became an instant best seller. Three hundred thousand copies were sold the first year, and about two million copies were sold worldwide by 1857. For a three-month period Stowe reportedly received $10,000 in royalties. Across th nation people discussed the novel and its narrative—slavery.
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The court affirmed the right of slave owners to take their slaves into the western territories, negating the doctrine of popular sovereignty and severely undermining the platform of the newly created Republican Party.
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11 southern states suceded The Union from 1860-1861 and became the Confederate States of America or the Confederacy.
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The first battle of the Civil War was fought at Fort Sumter when Confedrate troops fired on the Union.
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