Uncle Tom’s Cabin This is an interesting story written by Harriet Beecher Stowe and published in 1852. It was one of the best-selling books of that time, starting debates about slavery all over America. It tells the stories of slaves living on the plantations in the southern states of America which are based on real people and events. As it is a classic chowing the whole world the cruelties of slavery, it chould be read by all students of English. .