Harriet Beecher Stowe
Uncle Tom's Cabin
- Random House UK Ltd
- 2015
- Taschenbuch
- 494 Seiten
- ISBN 9780099595830
Harriet Beecher Stowe was born in 1811, one of ten children of famous minister Lyman Beecher. She moved to Ohio in 1832 and was introduced to the slavery debates, marrying the professor and staunch abolitionist Calvin Stowe with whom she had seven children. In 1850 the Fugitive Slave Law was passed, punishing anyone who offered runaway slaves food or shelter ¿ she drew on her anger from this to write Uncle Tom's Cabin , which first appeared in an abolitionist newspaper and was then published in book form. It was an immediate bestseller, selling ten thousand copies in its first week of publication and going on
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