Written by Harriet Beecher Stowe, in 1852 changed Northern perspectives on African Americans and slavery. The book sold 300,000 the first year. Stowe presented slavery and African Americans as real people with awful circumstances. She felt she was "painting" or making it clear to Northerns that slavery was an actual horror story taking place in the United States at that time. And all the while Southerners were trying to have the book banned, because it attacked the actual portrayal of slavery. Even though the book was an outrage to the South, it eventially sold millions of copies. Even now some historians believe that this book was one of the causes of the civil war.
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