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Uncle Tom's Cabin also created great interest in the United Kingdom.

The first London edition appeared in May 1852 and sold 200, 000 copies.

Some of this interest was because of British antipathy to America.

As one prominent writer explained, " The evil passions which Uncle Tom gratified in England were not hatred or vengeance slavery, but national jealousy and national vanity.

We have long been smarting under the conceit of America – we are tired of hearing her boast that she is the freest and the most enlightened country that the world has ever seen.

Our clergy hate her voluntary system – our Tories hate her democrats — our Whigs hate her parvenus – our Radicals hate her litigiousness, her insolence, and her ambition.

All parties hailed Mrs. Stowe as a revolter from the enemy.

" Charles Francis Adams, the American minister to Britain during the war, argued later that " Uncle Tom's Cabin ; or Life among the Lowly, published in 1852, exercised, largely from fortuitous circumstances, a more immediate, considerable and dramatic world-influence than any other book ever printed.