The author, Harriet Beecher Stowe, a diminutive New Englander from a high-minded, intellectual, clerical background, was nearing her fortieth birthday when the book came out. Her father was a celebrated Congregationalist preacher, Lyman Beecher. Her husband and all her brothers were ministers, and her literary output was dedicated to inculcating Christian values.
They lived in Cincinatti, across the Ohio River from slave-owning Kentucky, and she met fugitive slaves and learned more about life in the South.
In her son, Samuel Charles, eighteen months old, died of cholera. The book started appearing in print while Mrs Stowe was still writing it and she had trouble keeping up. But if you see something that doesn't look right, click here to contact us! Several packages of deadly sarin gas are set off in the Tokyo subway system killing twelve people and injuring over 5, on March 20, Sarin gas was invented by the Nazis and is one of the most lethal nerve gases known to man.
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Stowe became a leading voice in the anti-slavery movement, and yet, her ideas about race were complicated. In letters to friends and family members, Stowe demonstrated that she did not believe in racial equality; she suggested, for example, that emancipated slaves should be sent to Africa, and she used derogatory language when describing black servants. Though Stowe was earnest in her attempts to portray slavery as it really was—gathering an impressive array of facts, figures, and first-person testimonies to supplement her own observations—she would not have had the same insight or understanding as an enslaved person experiencing those conditions.
Her reliance on racial stereotypes exposed her misconceptions about black people, discrediting her authority even more. To protect her son, Eliza runs away, making a dramatic escape over the frozen Ohio River with Harry in her arms. Eventually the Harris family is reunited and journeys north to Canada.
Tom protects his family by choosing not to run away so the others may stay together. Upon being sold south, he meets Topsy, a young black girl whose mischievous behavior hides her pain; Eva, an angelic, young white girl who is wise beyond her years; charming, elegant but passive St. Simon Legree has Tom whipped to death for refusing to deny his faith or betray the hiding place of two fugitive women. John Hooker was a lawyer and an abolitionist. Her husband, John Hooker , believed in his wife and supported her activities.
He helped Isabella draft a bill to the Connecticut Legislature giving married women the same property rights as their husbands.
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