Reclaiming the Name of the Black Hero Who Inspired ‘Uncle Tom’s Cabin’

After 42 years of slavery, Josiah Henson escaped to Canada, where he wrote a memoir, founded a school and led others to ...
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Searching for the Elusive Man Who Inspired Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. One evening in December 1850, an escaped slave named John Andrew Jackson arrived at a handsome, white clapboard house in Brunswick ...
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Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly, Vol. I

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Bringing Uncle Tom’s Cabin into today’s classroom

Educators are finding fresh ways to teach Harriet Beecher Stowe’s *Uncle Tom’s Cabin*, blending literary analysis with ...
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‘Uncle Tom’s Cabin’ subject of discussion to be presented at Bowdoin College Museum of Art

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. Sean Kramer, Andrew W. Mellon postdoctoral curatorial fellow, will present a ...
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Here’s the Black fugitive who inspired ‘Uncle Tom’s Cabin’ and the end of US slavery

In my biography of John Andrew Jackson, “A Plausible Man,” I detail his remarkable life. An old wooden fence surrounds a replica of a one-room windowless cabin in Chopin, La., like the one that might ...
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RITTNER: Uncle Tom and Troy

The book “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” has often been labeled as the kindling wood of the Civil War. Written in 1852 by Harriet Beecher Stowe, who was the child of a protestant preacher, it was originally ...
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Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Uncle Tom’s Cabin is a seminal ...