But what lay behind Lincoln’s victory? Many people of that era attributed it to “Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” because Stowe’s novel changed the political scene by making the North, formerly ...

On March 28, 1852, Harriet Beecher Stowe published the novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Selling 500,000 copies, the book shed a harsh light on slavery. Uncle Tom of the book was a true hero but was ...

“The Book of Two Hemispheres” highlights the dynamic visual culture that arose in response to the most famous American anti-slavery novel of its era and arguably of all time: "Uncle Tom’s Cabin" by ...

Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin, was the best-selling novel of the 19th century and the second best-selling book of that century after the Bible. Published in book form on March ...

The novel isn't taught as much in schools, but you again can visit the Brunswick house where Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote it. In December 1850, John Andrew Jackson — who had escaped a plantation ...

On January 25, 2024, the Bowdoin College Museum of Art will open “The Book of Two Hemispheres:” Uncle Tom’s Cabin in the United States and Europe. This exhibition explores the international ...

Stowe first wrote about Henson’s 1849 autobiography in her 1853 book A Key to Uncle Tom’s Cabin, an annotated bibliography of sorts in which she cited a number of nonfiction accounts she had ...

A few years later, he read the book and began to “connect more ... But other places of leisure in Germany are also called Uncle Tom’s Cabin, she noted, undercutting that explanation.

Books are disappearing from the shelves of ... Published in 1852 — just under a decade before the outbreak of the Civil War — Uncle Tom's Cabin was unabashed in its depiction of slavery ...