PBS7 年
Stowe Visits a Slave State
While in Kentucky, she witnessed slavery up close for the first time. The house now operates as the Harriet Beecher Stowe, Slavery to Freedom Museum.
PBS8 年
Letter to Garrison from Harriet Beecher Stowe
Where is this work of excommunication to end -- Is there but one true anti-slavery church and all others infidels? -- Who shall declare which it is. I feel bound to remostrate with this -- for the ...
来自MSN6 个月
The Black Fugitive Who Inspired 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' and Helped End Slavery in the U.S.
He also played a key role in Harriet Beecher Stowe’s celebrated 1852 novel Uncle ... puzzled by his obscurity from most histories of slavery in America. In my new biography of Jackson, A ...
Montgomery Community Media3 天
Josiah Henson Museum Spotlights the Real ‘Uncle Tom’
One of the most iconic American novels is said to have been inspired by a man who was once enslaved in Montgomery County. Josiah Henson is the inspiration behind Harriet… Read More ...
来自MSN1 个月
The Remarkable Life of One of Boston's Most Fervent and Daring Abolitionists
Between 1850 and 1860, it’s estimated that Harriet sheltered hundreds of people fleeing slavery. In the evening ... antislavery advocates: Harriet Beecher Stowe visited in 1853, as did John ...
University of Bristol2 年
Maryland’s ‘Reluctant’ Fugitive: Josiah Henson
Josiah Henson was an abolitionist, author, and a minister, whose life story is thought to have inspired Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852). Henson was born into slavery in Maryland in ...