In 1852, a northern abolitionist, Harriet Beecher Stowe, wrote the novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin, in reaction to the Fugitive slave law. It was an instant success in the North, selling 300,000 copies during its first year of publication. It was also soon made into a play. Both the novel and play depicted slavery as an ---- institution and the slaves as possessing an essential, and at times, noble humanity. (Uncle Tom, the hero of the novel, is a Christ-like figure who gives up his life (whipped to death on a whipping post that was shaped like this-🡪 T. Publication of the novel in 1852 greatly aided the emergence of anti-slavery sentiment in the North.

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