How was slavery depicted in Uncle Tom's Cabin?

Uncle Tom's Cabin had an affect on the attitudes of slavery, by shocking thousands of people who previously had been unconcerned about slavery. As a result, readers began to view slavery as a wrong thing to have. The book was interesting and got many Northerners thinking about slavery and how devastating it really was. The South took it as an attack on the South as a whole. The novel had a effect on attitudes toward African Americans and slavery in the United States, so much that the novel intensified the sectional conflict leading to the American Civil War.