Many sources of varying degrees of certainty claim that once upon meeting with the author of Uncle Tom's Cabin, Abraham Lincoln allegedly uttered the phrase: 'This little lady started a great war.' The novel of the American writer Harriet Beecher Stowe very quickly gained worldwide fame and recognition. Written in the nineteenth-century sentimental style of 'female prose,' this book nonetheless produced a grandiose revolution in public sentiment, gaining an important place not only in the history of literature, but simply in history, since it was the most noble occasion for the Civil War between the North and The struggle for the abolition of slavery became the south. And in this struggle the book of a little woman made an invaluable contribution.