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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tuffy" data-source="post: 2669885" data-attributes="member: 774261"><p>When Lincoln met Harriet Beecher Stowe at the White House in 1862, he reportedly said, "So you're the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war."  Uncle Tom's Cabin or Life Among the Lonely was published in 1852 and sold 300,000 in six months. It was translated into 16 languages and sold another 300,000 copies. The only book in more homes than Stowe's novel was the Bible. Before it was published in book form it was in a series in the monthly National Era, it did have mass appeal. Another estimate of its affect was that each copy was probably read by 8 to 10 people meant that over 10% of the total U.S. population read the book.</p></blockquote><p></p>