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Samuel Green Freed Himself and Others From Slavery. Then He Was Imprisoned Over Owning a Book

After buying his own liberty, the Marylander covertly assisted conductors on the Underground Railroad, including Harriet ...
Smithsonian Magazine

How Harriet Beecher Stowe Turned Public Opinion Against Slavery

Learn how Harriet Beecher Stowe’s book Uncle Tom’s Cabin sparked national debate and changed how many Americans understood slavery. By Brandon B. Fortune, Chief Curator, National Portrait Gallery New ...
The Saratogian

RITTNER: Uncle Tom and Troy

The book “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” has often been labeled as the kindling wood of the Civil War. Written in 1852 by Harriet Beecher Stowe, who was the child of a protestant preacher, it was originally ...
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Artist paying tribute to 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' author with sculpture

The sculpture is expected to be finished by September. A project is in the works to pay tribute to Harriet Beecher Stowe, the author of "Uncle Tom's Cabin," with the first life-sized sculpture in her ...
Philadelphia Tribune

Back in the Day: Remembering Rev. Dr. Gus Roman’s perspective of uncle Tom

On Friday, we said goodbye in a fitting home-going service for Rev. Dr. Gus Roman, a spiritual and civil rights leader who touched the lives of many in the Philadelphia area. Roman had a special ...
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Uncle Tom's cabin Adapted by Anne Terry White

Eliza Harris, a slave whose child is to be sold, escapes her beloved home on the Shelby plantation in Kentucky and heads North, eludes the hired slave catchers and is aided by the underground railroad ...