Like “The Jungle,” “Uncle Tom's Cabin” aimed to improve the lives of the novel's subjects, slaves in the United States. Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel “helped move anti-slavery sentiment in the North beyond the relatively small circle of abolitionists to a more general audience” (McNamara). This was crucial for the time as the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, the law that forced fugitive slaves to be returned to their owners, was passed two years before the novel's publication (Robbins). Furthermore, a few years later, in 1960, Abraham Lincoln would run for president and sign the Emancipation Proclamation, freeing the slaves from their owners (McNamara). As more and more people began to oppose slavery after reading the novel, the more popular the idea of ​​freeing these slaves became. Just as in the case of “The Jungle,” this novel has influenced many across the nation to demand change in theirs