On This Day in History
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4 min readMar 20, 2024
Uncle Tom’s Cabin Was Published 3/20/1852
“Into the emotion-charged atmosphere of mid-nineteenth-century America Uncle Tom’s Cabin exploded like a bombshell…the social impact of Uncle Tom’s Cabin on the United States was greater than that of any book before or since.”
— Printing and the Mind of Man,
