Its popularity as a novel and vast impact on contemporary public sentiment far surpassed its technical merits, and it remains an icon of the historic struggle to abolish slavery in the United States.
"It was Stowe's object to show that the evils of slavery were the inherent evils of a bad system, and not always the fault of those who had become involved in it and were its actual administrators." He called this lack of personal responsibility racist, and current scholarship is somewhat critical of Stowe's moral views. Despite the criticism, Uncle Tom's Cabin remains a well-read classic, a book which became a standard of the historic struggle to abolish slavery.
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