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Life of Josiah Henson: Formerly a Slave
Josiah HensonThree years before Harriet Beecher Stowe interviewed Josiah Henson and wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin, Henson published his life story as a powerful autobiography.
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Harriet Beecher StoweHarriet. Beecher. Stowe: A. Brief. Chronology. 1811 Harriet Elizabeth Beecher, seventh of nine children, is born on June 14 to the Reverend Lyman Beecher (a prominent Presbyterian minister) and Roxana Beecher of Litchfield, Connecticut ...
Father Henson's Story of His Own Life
Harriet Beecher Stowe Josiah HensonThis is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process.
Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Spiritual Life
Nancy Koester"So you're the little woman who started this big war," Abraham Lincoln is said to have quipped when he met Harriet Beecher Stowe.
Harriet Beecher Stowe: The Voice of Humanity in White America
Henry ElliotDetails the life and achievements of abolitionist Harriet Beecher Stowe whose book, "Uncle Tom's Cabin", is said to have started the Civil War.
House and Home Papers
Harriet Beecher StoweThis 1865 volume by Harriet Beecher Stowe was originally published under the psuedonym Christopher Crowfield. The volume contains short stories and essays revolving around subjects of cookery and domestic economy.
Autobiography of Josiah Henson: An Inspiration for Harriet ...
Josiah HensonHenson keenly recalls his childhood and youth, forced separation from his wife and children, journey to Canada, life as a conductor on the underground railroad, visit to England, meeting with Queen Victoria.
Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Life
Joan D. Hedrick" In this landmark book, the first full-scale biography of Harriet Beecher Stowe in over fifty years, Joan D. Hedrick tells the absorbing story of this gifted, complex, and contradictory woman.
The Limits of Sisterhood: The Beecher Sisters on Women's ...
Jeanne Boydston9. Harriet Beecher Stowe to Henry Ward Beecher, June n, 1870, SML. Stowe's dilletantish suffrage leader, Mrs. Cerulean, was recognized by many suffragists to be a highly satirical portrait of Isabella. See, for example, Ellen Garrison's letter to ...
The Life of Josiah Henson, Formerly a Slave: Now an ...
Josiah HensonHenson's autobiography, The Life of Josiah Henson, Formerly a Slave, Now an Inhabitant of Canada, as Narrated by Himself, is widely believed to have inspired the character of the fugitive slave, George Harris, in Uncle Tom's Cabin.
The Cambridge Companion to Harriet Beecher Stowe
Cindy WeinsteinThis collection of specially commissioned essays provides new perspectives on the frequently read classic Uncle Tom's Cabin, as well as on topics of perennial interest, such as Stowe's representation of race, her attitude to reform, and her ...
Palmetto-leaves
Harriet Beecher StoweLargely descriptive of the St. John's river region of Florida.
Uncle Tom's Story of His Life: An Autobiography of the ...
Josiah HensonThis 1876 version of Josiah Henson's autobiography, the first of many editions issued by British editor John Lobb, followed the original 1849 edition and a much-expanded 1858 version.
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Harriet Beecher StoweIts historical impact was so great that it spawned the mythical story that Abraham Lincoln, upon meeting Stowe near the start of the Civil War, was heard to say, ""So this is the little lady who started this great war.""
Harriet Beecher Stowe: a biography
Noel Bertram GersonRecounts the eventful, creative life of the author of Uncle Tom's Cabin, highlighting her familial ties and many friendships and reassessing her literary achievement and importance
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Harriet Beecher StowePublished in 1852, the novel had a profound effect on attitudes toward African Americans and slavery in the United States, so much so in the latter case that the novel intensified the sectional conflict leading to the American Civil War.
Tell It All a Woman's Life in Polygamy
Fanny StenhouseNumerous plates. Includes a preface by Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe: In these pages, a woman, a wife and mother, speaks the sorrows and oppressions of which she has been the witness and the victim.
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