"UNCLE TOM'S CABIN" IS HISTORY

"UNCLE TOM'S CABIN" IS HISTORY "Uncle Tom's Cabin" is African American-slave historical, canon, not antebellum American fiction . By this, I mean that author, Harriet Beecher Stowe, has sown together shrewdly by thread of imagination actual events that were reported in newspapers, in slave narratives , in court decisions, in letters, posters, advertisements and observations. Thus her classic book is nonfiction, although it pretends to be a novel. The dialogue between characters is affective as it is effective: Evoking Plato's dialogues in form, purpose, artistry, distinction and effect. Her stereotypical characters are tropes, types, apostrophes, like Socrates . I appreciate her popular "novel," all the more, as I also read along in its companion corpus, containing its overwhelming proofs . "A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin" was published by Stowe in 1853, one year after her international bestseller "novel" was released. It disproves the bevy of criticism that traducers and detractors leveled at her book to try to destroy its power. But her proofs being documented facts are unanswerable; nor has it ever been. I dare you to read both books , side by side, and to conclude otherwise. Her work is history on a par with Harold Courlander's "The African," and also with Alex Haley's "Roots."