The book "Uncle Tom's Cabin" sold like wildfire in America and all over the world. Ordinary people began to realize what the ugly face of slavery really looked like. More and more people began to resist the practice and fight against it.No one hated the idea of slavery any more than the President of the country, Abraham Lincoln. He was willing to risk his presidency and even his life to stop this terrible practice. It did not make him a popular person; but it did make him a person who was concerned for all human dignity. He was delighted to see that people were wrought up about this injustice because of this book of Mrs. Stowe.
When Mrs. Stowe met President Lincoln in 1862 he is reputed to have said to her, "So you are the little woman who wrote the book that started the great war!"
She became God's hands on earth to create a pulpit to encourage others to do their own thinking about what was right and what was wrong!
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