Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe has been adapted numerous times since its debut. ... Rather than preserving the sentiment of Stowe's anti-slavery propaganda, the film loses much of Stowe's harsh critique of slavery by glamorizing the plantation. ... Ultimately, the film adapts most of the plot from Stowe's novel. ... However, the film does not maintain the same seriousness in Stowe's attack on the institution of slavery. ... Stowe's novel arguably started the Civil War in America. ...

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