Uncle Tom's Cabin is an antislavery novel, that was written by Harriet Beecher and the novel depicts the story about Uncle Tom and the character Uncle Tom is portrayed in the novel as dignified and saintly slave. Tom was purchased by his grateful father while saving the life of little Eva and when he was being transported to auction in New Orleans by boat and thereafter Tom and Eva became great friends. During the first year of publication of the novel in the United States, some total of 300000 copies of Tom cabin was sold. Also, the novel was sold well in England. In the beginning of 1852, the novel was adopted multiple times for theatre. The factor that made theatre adopt the novel was that it made use of techniques and themes of theatrical melodrama which was popular at that point of time and thereby the transition of this particular novel to the stage was quite easy. Such adaptions contributed by adding to the animosity in the south and popularity of Stowe novel in the North along with playing capacity audiences in the United States. However, during the 20^th century, the reputation of the novel became problematic

The novel Uncle Tom’s cabin had cited Uncle Tom’s cabin as the factor that was leading in the civil war. Uncle Tom’s cabin is an exhaustive biography of the real people who are behind the fictional characters. Uncle Tom cabin features the character that is real people and was the primary inspiration for the character Uncle Tom, who was the African American slave and millions of people were touched by his story. This character was inspired by the person Josiah Henson who was an individual and was demonstrated as extraordinary courage. He was a helping person who tried to help people particularly white people in the country. His intention of serving the people was to gain an understanding of the horror of slavery, reality of slavery and price of slavery. The story of Josiah Henson was based on the outskirts of Washington in Rockville, Maryland. Henson lived his life as a slave and served his master Riley who was very vulgar and coarse in his habits and cruel and unprincipled in his general deportment. Henson was proved to be trustworthy despite the harsh treatment from his master. Therefore, the character Uncle Tom’s cabin portrayed in the novel is based on the real person Josiah Henson and the story depicting this character also holds true.

Uncle Tom’s cabin is the most popular and famous piece in the literature of civil war that presented a strong concentrating around the struggle for freedom in the time of adversity. It threw a look into the human compassion as well as human cruelty along with the loyalty of a man. The most important and direct contribution of Uncle Tom cabin was towards the Civil war, it is so because the novel is considered to be one of the major causes that led to the civil war and depicted the start reality of slavery. The novel was a runaway bestseller and a sensation in the country that cried about the slavery immediate abolition. It provided an indirect help to initiate the civil war and there was a deep resonation of Uncle Tom cabin with Americans because the incidents and character was real in the book. The feelings about slavery was significantly influenced by the novel and was considered ass the most discussed fiction work in the United States. The slavery issue was transformed to a something very emotional and personal from an abstract concern.

The recognition of the evils of slavery was prompted to be recognized by so many Americans and this is depicted as the primary cultural importance of the novel. Moreover, there is a significance impact on the conscience of American as it depicted that the conscience is the failure and is an ongoing problem of the nation. This is so because the suffering of others and poverty is ignored by many people and the failure of majority to make a commitment to the humanitarian causes. Different acts of North Carolina is described that they had discriminated slaves. The book was so popular amongst the common people that it caused many people to have a view of true evil of slavery. The political impact which the author of the novel intended to create was created through the novel.