Uncle Tom's Cabin is regarded as one of the finest piece of fiction in American English Literature.Harriet Beecher Stowe, the author of Uncle Tom's Cabin, was born at the Hartford Female Academy. A teacher and an active social worker; Stowe was also an active abolitionist.Uncle Tom, the central character of the story, is a long suffering black slave and the story revolves around him. The stories of the other characters are in one or the other way related to the story of Uncle Tom.