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Cruikshank was engaged by the publishing entrepreneur John Cassell to produce a series of illustrations for a pirated edition of the novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe, <i>Uncle Tom’s Cabin</i>, and to spearhead its publicity campaign. The novel, which tells the story of Uncle Tom, a long-suffering African American slave, was first published in serial form in 1851 and became the best-selling book of the 19th century. The edition illustrated by Cruikshank was one of the most popular and long-lived.\r\n\r\n<i>Uncle Tom’s Cabin</i> is often credited as a driving force behind America’s anti-slavery movement. However, the influence of popular contemporary theories of scientific racism is evident in the way in which characters in the book are reduced by both novelist and illustrator to racial 'types'. 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