"Catharine Beecher Catharine Esther Beecher (September 6, 1800 – May 12, 1878) was an American educator known for her forthright opinions on female education as well as her vehement support of the many benefits of the incorporation of kindergarten into children's education. Beecher was born September 6, 1800, in East Hampton, New York, the daughter of outspoken religious leader Lyman Beecher and Roxanna (Foote) Beecher. She was the sister of Harriet Beecher Stowe, the 19th century abolitionist and writer most famous for her groundbreaking novel ""Uncle Tom's Cabin"", and of clergymen Henry Ward Beecher and Charles Beecher. Beecher was educated"
"on both sides of the issue, with novels such as ""Uncle Tom's Cabin"" (1852) by Harriet Beecher Stowe's representing the abolitionist view of the evils of slavery. Southern white writers produced the ""Anti-Tom"" novels in response, purporting to truly describe life under slavery, as well as the more severe cruelties suffered by free labor in the North. Examples include ""Aunt Phillis's Cabin"" (1852) by Mary Henderson Eastman and ""The Sword and the Distaff"" (1853) by William Gilmore Simms. The slave narratives were integral to African-American literature. Some 6,000 former slaves from North America and the Caribbean wrote accounts of their"
"in which the slaves of what became Haiti killed many whites and mulattoes in 1804 while gaining independence from French control. When the anti-slavery book ""Uncle Tom's Cabin"" was published in 1852, Benjamin spoke out against Harriet Beecher Stowe's portrayal. He said that slaves were for the most part well treated, and plantation punishments, such as whipping or branding, were more merciful than sentences of imprisonment that a white man might receive in the North for similar conduct. In early 1854, Senator Douglas introduced his Kansas–Nebraska Bill, calling for popular sovereignty to determine whether the Kansas and Nebraska territories should"
"as an affront to God and/or reason. Abolitionism had roots similar to the temperance movement. The publishing of Harriet Beecher Stowe's ""Uncle Tom's Cabin"", in 1852, galvanized the abolitionist movement. Most debates over slavery, however, had to do with the constitutionality of the extension of slavery rather than its morality. The debates took the form of arguments over the powers of Congress rather than the merits of slavery. The result was the so-called ""Free Soil Movement."" Free-soilers believed that slavery was dangerous because of what it did to whites. The ""peculiar institution"" ensured that elites controlled most of the land,"
"activities because it was illegal to assist runaway slaves, it is believed that they helped as many as 2,000 of them to freedom in the North and in Canada during the twenty years (1826 to 1847) that they lived in Indiana. Harriet Beecher Stowe's fictional work, ""Uncle Tom's Cabin"", told stories of slaves who escaped on the Underground Railroad. Stowe was living in Cincinnati at the time she wrote the novel and became acquainted with the Coffins, who may have been the inspiration for the fictional Quaker couple named Simeon and Rachael Halliday in her story. Stowe's book relates the"
"For instance, she had never been to a Southern plantation. However, Stowe always said she based the characters of her book on stories she was told by runaway slaves in Cincinnati. It is reported that ""She observed firsthand several incidents which galvanized her to write [the] famous anti-slavery novel. Scenes she observed on the Ohio River, including seeing a husband and wife being sold apart, as well as newspaper and magazine accounts and interviews, contributed material to the emerging plot."" In response to these criticisms, in 1853 Stowe published ""A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin"", an attempt to document the"
"Miss Prissy is right and Mary should be with the man that she loves, so he calls off the wedding. The Minister's Wooing The Minister's Wooing is a historical novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe, first published in 1859. Set in 18th-century New England, the novel explores New England history, highlights the issue of slavery, and critiques the Calvinist theology in which Stowe was raised. Due to similarities in setting, comparisons are often drawn between this work and Nathaniel Hawthorne's ""The Scarlet Letter"" (1850). However, in contrast to Hawthorne's ""The Scarlett Letter"", ""The Minister's Wooing"" is a ""sentimental romance""; its central"
"include the affectionate, dark-skinned ""mammy""; the ""pickaninny"" stereotype of black children; and the ""Uncle Tom"", or dutiful, long-suffering servant faithful to his white master or mistress. In recent years, the negative associations with ""Uncle Tom's Cabin"" have, to an extent, overshadowed the historical impact of the book as a ""vital antislavery tool."" Stowe, a Connecticut-born teacher at the Hartford Female Seminary and an active abolitionist, wrote the novel as a response to the passage, in 1850, of the second Fugitive Slave Act. Much of the book was composed in Brunswick, Maine, where her husband, Calvin Ellis Stowe, taught at his"
"""Aunt Phillis's Cabin"" contains contrasts and comparisons to the anti-slavery novel, ""Uncle Tom's Cabin"" by Harriet Beecher Stowe, which was published earlier that year. It serves as an antithesis; Eastman's novel deliberately referred to the situation in Stowe's ""Uncle Tom's Cabin"", where plantation owners abuse their repressed, disloyal slaves. Eastman portrays white plantation owners who behave benignly toward their slaves. Eastman also uses quotes from various sources – including ""Uncle Tom's Cabin"" itself – to explain that slavery is a natural institution, and essential to life. Like other novels of the genre, it contains much dialogue between masters and slaves,"
"The Minister's Wooing The Minister's Wooing is a historical novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe, first published in 1859. Set in 18th-century New England, the novel explores New England history, highlights the issue of slavery, and critiques the Calvinist theology in which Stowe was raised. Due to similarities in setting, comparisons are often drawn between this work and Nathaniel Hawthorne's ""The Scarlet Letter"" (1850). However, in contrast to Hawthorne's ""The Scarlett Letter"", ""The Minister's Wooing"" is a ""sentimental romance""; its central plot revolves around courtship and marriage. Moreover, Stowe's exploration of the regional history of New England deals primarily with the"
"by Harriet Beecher Stowe, which was criticised in the South as inaccurately depicting the workings of slavery and the attitudes of plantation owners towards their slaves. Rush's novel departs from this aspect, instead claiming that the sympathies expressed for slaves in the South is better directed at the ""white slaves of poverty"" (i.e. the working classes) of the North. A similar angle had been taken (albeit with less fervour) in the earlier anti-Tom novel ""The Cabin and Parlor; or, Slaves and Masters"" by Charles Jacobs Peterson. This change in attitude would put ""The North and the South"" on a similar"
"the best-selling novel of the 19th century (and the second best-selling book of the century after the Bible). This abolitionist novel focused on the evils of slavery and was inspired by the passage of the Fugitive Slave Act two years before, which punished those who aided runaway slaves. The book was highly controversial and fanned the debate over slavery in the country. The response to Stowe's novel in the American South was one of outrage. To counter Stowe's novel, Southern writers produced a number of pro-slavery books, the vast majority of them novels. In 1852 alone, eight anti-Tom novels were"
"Western Germany in 1833"" (1834), ""Paris and the Parisians in 1835"" (1836), and ""Vienna and the Austrians"" (1838). Among those with whom she became acquainted in Brussels was the future novelist Anna Harriett Drury. She received more attention during her lifetime for what are considered several strong novels of social protest: ""Jonathan Jefferson Whitlaw"" (1836) was the first anti-slavery novel, influencing the American Harriet Beecher Stowe's ""Uncle Tom's Cabin"" (1852). ""Michael Armstrong: Factory Boy"" began publication in 1840 and was the first industrial novel to be published in Britain. Other socially conscious novels included ""The Vicar of Wrexhill"" (1837 /"
"be extremely offensive. Anthony Burns was among the fugitive slaves captured and returned in chains to slavery as a result of the law. Harriett Beecher Stowe's best selling novel ""Uncle Tom's Cabin"" greatly increased opposition to the Fugitive Slave Law. Most people thought the Compromise had ended the territorial issue, but Stephen A. Douglas reopened it in 1854, in the name of democracy. Douglas proposed the Kansas–Nebraska Bill with the intention of opening up vast new high quality farm lands to settlement. As a Chicagoan, he was especially interested in the railroad connections from Chicago into Kansas and Nebraska, but"
"Harriet Beecher Stowe's ""Uncle Tom's Cabin,"" an anti-slavery novel published in 1852. ""The Ethics of Living Jim Crow"" follows Richard Wright's own experiences growing up in the Jim Crow era. The essay begins with Wright's first encounter with racism as a child, when his attempt to play a war game with white children turns violent, and ends with a scolding from his mother, blaming him for the incident. The rest of the essay follows his experiences as a Black man in the South through his adolescence and adulthood. He describes his experiences with racism at his first job, at an"
"classic anti-slavery novel Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe Jean Lowry Rankin Jean Lowry Rankin (1795–1877) was an American abolitionist and pioneer in the anti-slavery movement. With her husband John Rankin she assisted 2000 slaves in their journey to freedom along the Underground Railroad. The Rankin family home on the Ohio River in Ripley, Ohio is now the John Rankin House State Memorial, owned by the Ohio Historical Society. An incident in which an escaped slave fled with her infant child across the frozen Ohio River and took refuge in the home of John and Jean Lowry Rankin was"
"States. During the early 19th century, the Hartford area was a center of abolitionist activity, and the most famous abolitionist family was the Beechers. The Reverend Lyman Beecher was an important Congregational minister known for his anti-slavery sermons. His daughter Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote ""Uncle Tom's Cabin""; her brother Henry Ward Beecher was a noted clergyman who vehemently opposed slavery and supported the temperance movement and women's suffrage. The Stowes' sister Isabella Beecher Hooker was a leading member of the women's rights movement. In 1860, Hartford was the site of the first ""Wide Awakes,"" abolitionist supporters of Abraham Lincoln. These"
"details on the slave markets in Washington, D.C. and New Orleans, and describes at length cotton and sugar cultivation and slave treatment on major plantations in Louisiana. The work was published eight years before the Civil War by Derby & Miller of Auburn, New York, soon after Harriet Beecher Stowe's best-selling novel about slavery, ""Uncle Tom's Cabin"" (1852), to which it lent factual support. Northup's book, dedicated to Stowe, sold 30,000 copies, making it a bestseller in its own right. After being published in several editions in the 19th century and later cited by specialist scholarly works on slavery in"
"a Jesus-like figure who is ultimately martyred, beaten to death by a cruel master because he refuses to betray the whereabouts of two women who had escaped from slavery. Stowe reversed the gender conventions of slave narratives by juxtaposing Uncle Tom's passivity against the daring of three African American women who escape from slavery. The novel was both influential and commercially successful, published as a serial from 1851 to 1852 and as a book from 1852 onward. An estimated 500,000 copies had sold worldwide by 1853, including unauthorized reprints. Senator Charles Sumner credited ""Uncle Tom's Cabin"" for the election of"
"Caroline Lee Hentz Caroline Lee Whiting Hentz (June 1, 1800, Lancaster, Massachusetts – February 11, 1856, Marianna, Florida) was an American novelist and author, most noted for her opposition to the abolitionist movement and her widely read ""The Planter's Northern Bride"", a rebuttal to Harriet Beecher Stowe's popular anti-slavery book, ""Uncle Tom's Cabin"". She was a major literary figure in her day, and helped advance women's fiction. Caroline Hentz was born June 1, 1800, as Caroline Lee Whiting to Colonel John and Orpah Whiting in Lancaster, Massachusetts. The youngest of eight children, Caroline was raised in a very patriotic family."
"Uncle Tom Uncle Tom is the title character of Harriet Beecher Stowe's 1852 novel, ""Uncle Tom's Cabin"". The term ""Uncle Tom"" is also used as a derogatory epithet for an exceedingly subservient person, particularly when that person is aware of their own lower-class status based on race. The use of the epithet is the result of later works derived from the original novel. At the time of the novel's initial publication in 1851, Uncle Tom was a rejection of the existing stereotypes of minstrel shows; Stowe's melodramatic story humanized the suffering of slavery for white audiences by portraying Tom as"
"to aid slave catchers. Many northerners deeply resented that requirement to help slavery personally. Resentment towards the Act continued to heighten tensions between the North and South, which were inflamed further by abolitionists such as Harriet Beecher Stowe. Her book, ""Uncle Tom's Cabin"", stressed the horrors of recapturing escaped slaves and outraged Southerners. The fifth law, enacted on September 20, 1850, prohibited the slave trade but allowed slavery itself in the District of Columbia. Southerners in Congress were unanimous in opposing that provision, which was seen as a concession to the abolitionists, but they were outvoted. Compromise of 1850 The"
"US Congress in 1849; it is online on Project Gutenberg. After the Eastmans returned to the East, they lived in Washington, D.C. In the years of tension before the American Civil War, many writers published novels that dealt with each side of the slavery issue. After the stir caused by Harriet Beecher Stowe's anti-slavery ""Uncle Tom's Cabin"", Mary Henderson Eastman defended southern slaveholding society by writing ""Aunt Phillis's Cabin: or, Southern Life As It Is"" (1852). It sold 20,000–30,000 copies, making it a bestseller and one of the best-known of the anti-Tom novels produced in that period..She died on February,24"
"called the ""River Jordan"" by slaves crossing it to escape to freedom in the North via the Underground Railroad. More escaping slaves, estimated in the thousands, made their perilous journey north to freedom across the Ohio River than anywhere else across the north-south frontier. Harriet Beecher Stowe's ""Uncle Tom's Cabin"", the bestselling novel that fueled abolitionist work, was the best known of the anti-slavery novels that portrayed such escapes across the Ohio. The times have been expressed by 20th-century novelists as well, such as the Nobel Prize-winning Toni Morrison, whose novel ""Beloved"" was adapted as a film of the same"
"1855 ""Plymouth Collection"". He published several antislavery tracts, including ""A Sermon on the Nebraska Bill"" (1854) and ""The God of the Bible Against Slavery"" (1855). His travel journal was re-published in 1986 by the Stowe-Day Foundation under the title ""Harriet Beecher Stowe in Europe"". Charles Beecher Charles Beecher (October 1, 1815 – April 21, 1900) was an American minister, composer of religious hymns and a prolific author. Beecher was born in Litchfield, Connecticut, the son of Lyman Beecher, an abolitionist Congregationalist preacher from Boston and Roxana Foote Beecher. He was the brother of Harriet Beecher Stowe, the famous author of"
"Florida in 1867, she was already internationally famous for authoring ""Uncle Tom's Cabin"", published as a serial between 1851 and 1852. The novel expounded upon her abolitionist views and was extraordinarily influential in condemning slavery in the United States. Stowe's opposition to slavery sprang from a moral passion based on her Christian faith. She had grown up the daughter of a Presbyterian minister, Lyman Beecher; seven of her brothers became ministers in Calvinist or Congregational denominations, and she married a minister. In 1860, Stowe's son Frederick ""Fred"" William Stowe enlisted in the First Massachusetts Infantry Regiment when Abraham Lincoln called"
"""The Life of Josiah Henson, formerly a Slave: As Narrated by Himself"". It has now been reproduced by various publishing companies including Applewood Biks () and Dover Publications (). After the publication was released in 1849 it received little public attention until Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel, ""Uncle Tom's Cabin"", was published in 1852. Soon after it became widely believed, and Stowe confirmed the connection, that Hensen's book and life experience was a major source of her work. This slave narrative, begins with an 'Advertisement.' In the case of this book, the use of the word Advertisement is not to introduce"
"in Foster's work of his own childhood experiences of losing his home as a result of financial hardships. The creation of the song ""My Old Kentucky Home, Good-Night!"" established a decisive moment within Stephen Foster's career in regard to his personal beliefs on the institution of slavery and is an example of the common theme of the loss of home, which is prevalent throughout Foster's work. In March 1852, Harriet Beecher Stowe's abolitionist novel Uncle Tom's Cabin appeared in bookstores in Foster's hometown of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The novel, written about the plight of a slave in Kentucky, had a profound"
"Beechers. The Reverend Lyman Beecher was an important Congregational minister known for his anti-slavery sermons. His daughter, Harriet Beecher Stowe, wrote the famous ""Uncle Tom's Cabin"", while her brother, the Reverend Henry Ward Beecher, was a noted clergyman who vehemently opposed slavery and supported the temperance movement and women's suffrage. Beecher Stowe's sister, Isabella Beecher Hooker, was a leading member of the women's rights movement. In 1860, Hartford was the site of the first ""Wide Awakes,"" abolitionist supporters of Abraham Lincoln. These supporters organized torch-light parades that were both political and social events, often including fireworks and music, in celebration"
"her relationship with the Schoolcraft children. They became alienated from both her and their father. After Schoolcraft's hands became paralyzed in 1848 from a rheumatic condition, Mary devoted much of her attention to caring for him and helping him complete his massive study of American Indians, which had been commissioned by Congress in 1846. In 1860, she published the novel """" (which she said her husband had encouraged). One of many pro-slavery books published in response to Harriet Beecher Stowe's bestselling ""Uncle Tom's Cabin"", such defenses of slavery, published in the decade before the American Civil War, became known as"
"The North and the South; or, Slavery and Its Contrasts The North and the South; or, Slavery and Its Contrasts is an 1852 plantation fiction novel by Caroline Rush, and among the first examples of the genre, alongside others such as ""Aunt Phillis's Cabin"" by Mary Henderson Eastman and ""Life at the South; or, ""Uncle Tom's Cabin"" As It Is"" by W.L.G. Smith, both of which were also released in 1852. ""The North and the South"" was one of several examples of the pro-slavery plantation literature genre that emerged from the Southern United States in response to ""Uncle Tom's Cabin"""
"popularity in the 1850s, and by 1855, it had passed into common usage by upper-class whites, and was common usage among all Southerners, regardless of race, throughout the rest of the 19th century. In 1854, Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote the chapter ""Poor White Trash"" in her book ""A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin"". Stowe wrote that slavery not only produces ""degraded, miserable slaves"", but also poor whites who are even more degraded and miserable. The plantation system forced those whites to struggle for subsistence. Beyond economic factors, Stowe traces this class to the shortage of schools and churches in their"
"of race and rights. Another example is Harriet Beecher Stowe’s ""Uncle Tom's Cabin"", which was the best-selling novel of the 19th century. The book had a deep impact on public opinion in the US on the issue of slavery and is seen as one of the triggers to the Abolitionist movement in the 1850s. Many other books and novels had great impact on human rights issues and struggles, for example: Toni Morrison’s ""Beloved"", Giannina Braschi’s ""United States of Banana"", Franz Kafka’s ""The Trial"" and ""Night"" by Elie Wiesel. While the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and subsequent international covenants defined"