Hubbard House Annual Pilgrimage: Re-Viewing Uncle Tom’s Cabin
When Harriet Beecher Stowe published Uncle Tom's Cabin, the effect was electric. Abolitionists hailed it for its depictions of the cruelty of slavery. Southerners immediately denounced it as lies. By the Civil War—a war that Abraham Lincoln purportedly attributed to Stowe's book—over one million copies had sold. Even after the war and slavery's end, […]
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