Who Is Uncle Tom's Cabin: Fact Or Fiction?

Man has always felt the need to document his experiences. Man has always drawn hours of entertainment from the art form of storytelling. Man has always had a story to tell. In the beginning, all they needed was a way to tell it. Once something more substantial than a rudimentary language was formed, the very first books began to appear. Books connected, and continue to connect, people and their ideas. They were especially essential before the age of technology we live in today, because books did not only lead to entertainment. Some of them existed with the purpose of entertaining, but ended up bringing people to great social movements.

Perhaps the greatest and most well known American example of this is Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe. Stowe’s novel was published right before the outbreak of the Civil War, in 1852, and many
Radical ideas in novels can spread like a plague, and just as fast, because everyone is interested in hearing the man who claims only to be ‘speaking his mind’ - and what could be so dangerous about that? Historically speaking, Hitler s Mein Kampf, an autobiography he composed while in jail, is likely the most well known. By 1925, it managed to get into print, and was flying off the shelves when he was released from prison. It should have been a warning of what was to come, but the German people were far too interested in Hitler’s ideas of their racial superiority. Some of the German people, at least: the ones who weren't Jewish, homosexual, or any other ‘non- Aryan’, to be more specific. Perhaps had this work of literature been stopped before it went into print, and perhaps had this work of literature been taken more seriously by the world's leaders, something could have been done to prevent the previously unthinkable slaughter that occurred in World War