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

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

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