Which author wrote the influential abolitionist work Uncle Tom's Cabin?

• A. Harriet Tubman
• B. Sojourner Truth
• C. Frederick Douglass
• D. Harriet Beecher Stowe

Answer: (D)

Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin. Published as a book in 1852 (after earlier serialization), it brought the realities of slavery to a wide audience by telling intimate, human stories of enslaved people and the brutality they faced. This vivid portrayal helped many readers grasp what abolitionists argued—that slavery was morally wrong and inhumane—so it energized anti-slavery sentiment in the North and even influenced opinion in Britain. The other names are also important abolitionists, but they did not author this particular work: Harriet Tubman is famed for the Underground Railroad; Sojourner Truth spoke powerfully on abolition and women's rights; Frederick Douglass wrote his own powerful autobiographies and speeches about his life under slavery. Uncle Tom's Cabin stands out as the specific influential novel credited to Stowe.