The Effect of Uncle Tom's Cabin on the Nation Was

The effect of Uncle Tom's Cabin on the nation was to

A) spread the message of abolitionism to an enormous new audience.
B) reveal the ugly extent of the vicious slave trade to America.
C) ignite such anger in the South that several states soon seceded from the Union.
D) offer the first written history of American slavery.
E) help humanize Southern slaveholders in the minds of Northern readers.