Uncle Tom’s Cabin

March 20, 1852 – John P. Jewett and Co. publish Uncle Tom’s Cabin: Life Among the Lowly by Cincinnati abolitionist Harriet Beecher Stowe. Within a week of its release, the book would sell 10,000 copies. It had sales of 300,000 in the first year. Within two years, the book would be translated into 60 languages.
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