However, it has also been criticized for making stereotypes about black people. In these days, it has been praised as a very important help to anti-slavery. It helped abolitionism spread in the 1850s. Uncle Tom's Cabin was the most popular novel of the 19th century, and the second best-selling book of the century (the first one was the Bible). It also said that Christian love is stronger than slavery. The main character of the novel is Uncle Tom, a patiente sentimental novel showed the effects of slavery. The book's effect was so powerful that Lincoln said when he met Stowe at the beginning of the Civil War, 'So this is the little lady who made this big war.'

It also strengthened the conflict between the Northern and Southern United States. It greatly influenced many people's thoughts about African Americans and slavery in the United States. Van Trompe agrees to shelter Eliza and Harry and lets her know that he will protect them – with guns – if anybody tries to come and take them away from his house.Uncle Tom's Cabin or, Life Among the Lowly is an anti- slavery novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe.

The Senator takes Eliza and Harry down a difficult road to honest old John Van Trompe, a man who has freed all of his slaves.Bird gives the young woman some clothes that had belonged to her son, who passed away recently. Bird tells her husband that she loves him because his heart is better than his head. Senator Bird plans to take them to safety himself.Her master will be looking for her bright and early the next morning. Bird go into the other room and Senator Bird says they need to get Eliza and Harry on the road tonight. They leave the runaway slave in the kitchen with Dinah (the cook), and let Dinah know that she should make a bed up for her, and they will do something for her in the morning. After they hear Eliza’s story, both the Birds are touched.The Birds go to the kitchen, where they find Eliza, who runs to Mrs.Bird soon has a chance to test her theory because old Cudjoe, a servant, comes to let the Birds know that a poor, unfortunate woman has come to the door looking for help. She predicts that Senator Bird himself would send away a person in need, just because of this unjust law. She’s sure that it’s not Christian, that it will compel otherwise decent people to do evil. When he answers, 'Not much,' she asks if it’s true that they’ve passed a law that forbids people from helping fugitive slaves. Bird asks her husband (a senator) what going on in the Senate.

Mrs bird in uncle toms cabin