When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hold on a minute longer, never give up then for that is the place in time that the tide will turn.
- Harriet Beecher Stowe,1811-1896, American abolitionist and author
Image source: AmericanCivilWar.com
"Among the many Americans outraged and radicalized by the Fugitive Slave
Act was a writer and mother of six children named Harriet Beecher
Stowe. . . ."
". . . In March 1851 — just 6 months after the passage of the Fugitive Slave
Act — she began writing scenes that soon evolved into chapters that
told a story much longer and deeper than anything she had ever written.
In June 1851 through April 1852, these chapters appeared in issues of The National Era, a small antislavery weekly newspaper based in Washington D. C.. . .
By the time Uncle Tom's Cabin was published as a book in 1852, it was already famous, and it soon became the best-selling novel in 19th century America."
From: Petzold Book Blog - 1859 Books: Harriet Beecher Stowe's "The Minister's Wooing"
Read about the Fugitive Slave Josiah Henson, Harriet Beecher Stowe's Inspiration for Uncle Tom's Cabin at Suite 101.com
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