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The main point of Harriet Beecher Stowe in the writing of Uncle Tom's Cabin was to bring inform those in the north. In this she hoped to eventually sway people against slavery. Stowe did a great job with this book. Uncle Tom's Cabin became an abolitionist's bible in its time. The book was popular and caused abolitionism to run wild among northerners. It might have been influential enough to be considered one of the causes …

…book to get her ideas to the common people. Her book was influential because it not only told her ideas, but also because it states her ideas understandably, something not all writers are able to do. The entire theme of the book is about the evils of slavery; it was written to try to motivate people to eliminate it. Stowe is defiant and certain that slavery must not be slowly eliminated, but must stop immediately.