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Uncle Toms Cabin Rationalism Published during the mid 1800’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin was a controversial book among both Northerners and Southerners due to it’s anti-slavery issues, but it also provided a point for slavery. This book was one of the first works of literature that provided the north with which they thought was an accurate look at the institution of slavery. It however was fairly accurate, taking into account that Harriet Beecher Stowe had never visited the south, she had only heard what slavery was like from second hand accounts from run away slaves, which gave the book a anti-slavery feel, it still gave the south the chance to make the argument that slaves were actually treated quite well because they were an investment that their masters took care of, it also helped abolitionists spread the argument that slavery was un-moral and inhumane. This book came at a very volatile time in history, both the northerner and southern states need a a small reason to explode on one another. The book while telling of such true events such as the slave trade in which families were torn apart by the highest bidder. It also told of poor treatment of slaves, uncle, tom’s, cabin, south, slaves, north, slavery, book, felt, because, people, took, states, southern, put, gave, abolitionists, true, treatment, treated, trade, succeed, slave, reason, quite, provided, one, northerners, movement, make, institution, inhumane, however, helped, hand