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Events on Saturday 20 March 1852 1
1852Uncle Tom's Cabin publishedHarriet Beecher Stowe's antislavery novel appears in book formHarriet Beecher Stowe's novel, previously serialized, was published as a book and became a bestseller in the United States and Britain. Its depiction of slavery intensified sectional tensions ahead of the American Civil War.