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Perhaps
the most influential antislavery publication was Harriet Beecher Stowe's
Uncle Tom's Cabin, which sold more than a million copies. First published as a newspaper serial in 1851 and then as a book the following year, it tells the story of Uncle Tom, a dignified black slave, with a subplot involving the slaves George, Eliza, and their child, Harry. Mrs. Stowe became an international celebrity, and the American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow praised her work as "one of the greatest triumphs tendered in literary history." |
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Portrait
of Harriet Beecher Stowe,
engraving after a daguerreotype by T. H. Ellis, 1853 Click image to enlarge. Copyright 2002 The Chicago Historical Society |
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