Quote by Harriet Beecher Stowe: “One of the most odious circumstances of slavery is the entire abolition of the rights of property for the slave.”

Stowe highlights a fundamental evil of slavery: it strips enslaved people of their right to own anything, including themselves. This denies their basic human dignity and legal existence, making them mere objects.

Through the voice of her characters and narrator, Stowe powerfully condemns the legal framework that dehumanized enslaved individuals, sparking widespread abolitionist sentiment in America.

American abolitionist and author whose 1852 novel Uncle Tom's Cabin dramatized the brutality of slavery and became a landmark in American cultural and political history. Abraham Lincoln reportedly called her 'the little woman who wrote the book that started this great war.'