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Uncle Tom’s Cabin isn’t read much in America today, except by students taking courses in American history, American literature, and related disciplines. When it was first published, however, the book was the biggest, blockbuster best-seller in the nation’s history. Why did this book sell so well at the time of its publication? In your answer, use the political, social, religious, and literary context of ante-bellum America as well as the content of the book itself to explain the reasons for its popularity. Why did this pot-boiler novel sweep the reading public? What were the results of the novel and the impressions it made on its vast readership for the nation’s history?
It covered the social ills of the day.