Facts about Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Based
on several slave narratives, such as those of Frederick Douglass and Josiah Henson. 18 years living across the Ohio River from slaveholding communities; from fugitive slaves a
nd visits to the South, she got a personal knowledge of the institution of slavery. The author’s sense of her own suffering and oppression in the characters of Tom and his fellow slave Eliza, the protagonists of the book’s two main plots.2013-12-30 14