Uncle toms cabin publishing changed us in what way

Uncle tom’s cabin   has been cussed and discussed since may 8, 1851, when the novel’s first installment appeared in abolitionist gamaliel bailey’s washington, dc, weekly, the   national era . cussers include southerners such as william gilmore simms, who considered the novel a libelous hodgepodge of bad research and flat-out lies; reverend joel parker, who threatened to sue stowe for the “dastardly attack” on his character; charles dickens, who wondered if stowe patterned eva on his little nell; and james baldwin, who bemoaned the sentimentality and the powerlessness of uncle tom. discussers include everybody else: frederick douglass, ralph waldo emerson, george eliot, horace mann, mark twain, charles dudley warner, henry james, and in modern times, richard wright, harold bloom, elaine showalter, ann douglas, henry louis gates, jr., and john updike, who confessed to having never read the novel until he reviewed it in the  new yorker   in 2006.