"women, especially southern women, not to read Stowe’s productions. In spite of the varied reviews of ""A Key to Uncle Tom’s Cabin"", it sold quite well. It was a bestseller when it first came out, perhaps simply as a result of the obvious connection to ""Uncle Tom’s Cabin"", and Stowe’s celebrity. Although it never sold to the quantities of ""Uncle Tom’s Cabin"", it had sold 90,000 copies within a month of being published. A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin is a book by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. It was published to document the"
"Tom's Cabin"". Harriet Beecher Stowe Harriet Elisabeth Beecher Stowe (; June 14, 1811 – July 1, 1896) was an American abolitionist and author. She came from the Beecher family, a famous religious family, and is best known for her novel ""Uncle Tom's Cabin"" (1852), which depicts the harsh conditions for enslaved African Americans. The book reached millions as a novel and play, and became influential in the United States and Great Britain, energizing anti-slavery forces in the American North, while provoking widespread anger in the South. Stowe wrote 30 books, including novels, three travel memoirs, and collections of articles and"
"Harriet Beecher Stowe Harriet Elisabeth Beecher Stowe (; June 14, 1811 – July 1, 1896) was an American abolitionist and author. She came from the Beecher family, a famous religious family, and is best known for her novel ""Uncle Tom's Cabin"" (1852), which depicts the harsh conditions for enslaved African Americans. The book reached millions as a novel and play, and became influential in the United States and Great Britain, energizing anti-slavery forces in the American North, while provoking widespread anger in the South. Stowe wrote 30 books, including novels, three travel memoirs, and collections of articles and letters. She"
"in the vault were all moved together to the Mount Hope Cemetery. A cenotaph was later erected for Susanna Haswell Rowson and her brothers Robert and John Montresor Haswell at Forest Hills Cemetery in Boston's Jamaica Plain neighborhood, where she is memorialized as the author of ""Charlotte Temple"". Susanna Rowson Susanna Rowson, née Haswell (1762 – 2 March 1824) was a British-American novelist, poet, playwright, religious writer, stage actress, and educator. Rowson was the author of the 1791 novel ""Charlotte Temple"", the most popular best-seller in American literature until Harriet Beecher Stowe's ""Uncle Tom's Cabin"" was published in 1852. Susanna"
"Susanna Rowson Susanna Rowson, née Haswell (1762 – 2 March 1824) was a British-American novelist, poet, playwright, religious writer, stage actress, and educator. Rowson was the author of the 1791 novel ""Charlotte Temple"", the most popular best-seller in American literature until Harriet Beecher Stowe's ""Uncle Tom's Cabin"" was published in 1852. Susanna Haswell was born in 1762 in Portsmouth, England to Royal Navy Lieutenant William Haswell and his first wife, Susanna Musgrave, who died within days of Susanna's birth. While stationed in Boston her father remarried to Rachel Woodward and started a second family, and after his ship returned to"
"Elizabeth Beecher Elizabeth Beecher is an American screenwriter best known for her work on western-themed movies and television shows in the 1940s and 1950s. Beecher was born on February 19, 1898 in Bridgeport, Connecticut and is a descendant of Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of the book Uncle Tom's Cabin. She graduated from Syracuse University in 1920 with majors in English and History. Beecher worked as a news reporter and writer for the Syracuse Journal, San Francisco Chronicle, and the New York American. She moved to Hollywood in 1937 where she took up work as a freelance writer. She began writing"
"survived by her son Guy Snowden Miller, her sister, Dorothy Shidler grandson, Gene and granddaughter, Kerry. Elizabeth Beecher Elizabeth Beecher is an American screenwriter best known for her work on western-themed movies and television shows in the 1940s and 1950s. Beecher was born on February 19, 1898 in Bridgeport, Connecticut and is a descendant of Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of the book Uncle Tom's Cabin. She graduated from Syracuse University in 1920 with majors in English and History. Beecher worked as a news reporter and writer for the Syracuse Journal, San Francisco Chronicle, and the New York American. She moved"
"other works include a dramatization of Ann S. Stephens' novel ""The Old Homestead"". He retired from the stage in 1867. Aiken's original manuscripts for ""Uncle Tom's Cabin"" were passed down through the family along with other memorabilia from Howard's company. The family placed the collection at the Harry Ransom Center in 1963. George Aiken (playwright) George L. Aiken (December 19, 1830April 27, 1876) was a nineteenth-century American playwright and actor who is best known for writing the most popular of the numerous stage adaptations of Harriet Beecher Stowe's ""Uncle Tom's Cabin"". Aiken was a writer of dime novels before he"
"in 1860. He died in West Farms, New York, on April 11, 1874. Charles W. Taylor Charles Western Taylor ( - April 11, 1874), often billed as C. W. Taylor, was a well-known actor and dramatist in the United States in the mid-19th century. He is best known today, though only as a footnote, for writing one of the first stage adaptations of ""Uncle Tom's Cabin"". Taylor was born in Walsall, England, about 1800 and first appeared on stage in Norfolk, Virginia, in 1819. He soon after debuted in New York in the ""Forest Rose"". He long acted in parts"
"Uncle Robin, in His Cabin in Virginia, and Tom Without One in Boston Uncle Robin, in His Cabin in Virginia, and Tom Without One in Boston (sometimes shortened to simply Uncle Robin's Cabin) is an 1853 novel written by J.W. Page and released by J. W. Randolph Publishers of Richmond, Virginia. ""Uncle Robin"" is one of several examples of the pro-slavery anti-Tom or plantation literature genre that emerged in the Southern United States. They were written in response to the publication of the bestselling abolitionist novel ""Uncle Tom's Cabin"", released in book form in 1852, and were read both in"
"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"
"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"
"Harriet Beecher Stowe House (Hartford, Connecticut) The Harriet Beecher Stowe House is a historic house museum and National Historic Landmark at 73 Forest Street in Hartford, Connecticut that was once the home of Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of ""Uncle Tom's Cabin"". Stowe lived in this house for the last 23 years of her life. It was her family's second home in Hartford. The 5,000 sq ft (460 m) cottage-style house is located adjacent to the Mark Twain House and is open to the public. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970, and declared a National"
"Newman Beecher was born in New York City on January 22, 1904, to Leonard and Isabel Beecher. He was a descendent of the New England literary and abolitionist Beechers that included Harriet Beecher Stowe, the author of ""Uncle Tom's Cabin"", Lyman Beecher, and Henry Ward Beecher. His father was a steel industry executive. In 1907, Beecher's father was transferred to Birmingham, Alabama, to work for the United States Steel Corporation and Beecher spent the rest of his childhood in the American South. Beecher's family intended their son to become an executive like his father. After graduating from public high school"
"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"
"George Aiken (playwright) George L. Aiken (December 19, 1830April 27, 1876) was a nineteenth-century American playwright and actor who is best known for writing the most popular of the numerous stage adaptations of Harriet Beecher Stowe's ""Uncle Tom's Cabin"". Aiken was a writer of dime novels before he turned to theatre. He became an actor in the troupe of his cousin, George C. Howard. In 1852, shortly after the publication of Stowe's ""Uncle Tom's Cabin"", Aiken wrote his stage adaptation. It was performed by Howard's company, with Aiken playing the hero, George Harris. The play become a spectacular success. His"
"Henry Ward Beecher Henry Ward Beecher (June 24, 1813 – March 8, 1887) was an American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker, known for his support of the abolition of slavery, his emphasis on God's love, and his 1875 adultery trial. Henry Ward Beecher was the son of Lyman Beecher, a Calvinist minister who became one of the best-known evangelists of his era. Several of his brothers and sisters became well-known educators and activists, most notably Harriet Beecher Stowe, who achieved worldwide fame with her abolitionist novel ""Uncle Tom's Cabin"". Henry Ward Beecher graduated from Amherst College in 1834 and"
"herself had endured as a slave. In 1852, Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote the abolitionist book ""Uncle Tom's Cabin"". Begun as a serial for the Washington anti-slavery weekly, the National Era, the book focused public interest on the issue of slavery, and was deeply controversial for its strong anti-slavery stance at the time it was written. In writing the book, Stowe drew on her personal experience: she was familiar with slavery, the antislavery movement, and the Underground Railroad because Kentucky, across the Ohio River from Cincinnati, Ohio, where Stowe had lived, was a slave state. ""Uncle Tom's Cabin"" was a best-seller,"
"Charles W. Taylor Charles Western Taylor ( - April 11, 1874), often billed as C. W. Taylor, was a well-known actor and dramatist in the United States in the mid-19th century. He is best known today, though only as a footnote, for writing one of the first stage adaptations of ""Uncle Tom's Cabin"". Taylor was born in Walsall, England, about 1800 and first appeared on stage in Norfolk, Virginia, in 1819. He soon after debuted in New York in the ""Forest Rose"". He long acted in parts at the National Theatre on Chatham Street in New York. He also acted"
"William Gilmore Simms William Gilmore Simms (April 17, 1806 – June 11, 1870) was a poet, novelist and historian from the American South. His writings achieved great prominence during the 19th century, with Edgar Allan Poe pronouncing him the best novelist America had ever produced. He is still known among literary scholars as a major force in antebellum Southern literature. He is also remembered for his strong support of slavery and for his opposition to ""Uncle Tom's Cabin"", in response to which he wrote reviews and a pro-slavery novel. Simms was born on April 17, 1806, in Charleston, South Carolina,"
"because ""Uncle Tom's Cabin"" was the best-selling novel in the world during the 19th century. As a result, the book (along with illustrations from the book and associated stage productions) was accused of playing a major role in permanently ingraining such stereotypes into the American psyche. In the 1960s and 1970s, the Black Power and Black Arts Movements attacked the novel, claiming that the character of Uncle Tom engaged in ""race betrayal"", and that Tom made slaves out to be worse than slave owners. Among the stereotypes of blacks in ""Uncle Tom's Cabin"" are the ""happy darky"" (in the lazy,"
"into children's education. American minister who was called ""The Unlucky"" because misfortune attended all his ventures. American abolitionist and author, best known for her novel ""Uncle Tom's Cabin"" (1852), which depicts the harsh conditions for enslaved African Americans. The book reached millions as a novel and play, and became influential in the United States and Great Britain, energizing anti-slavery forces in the American North, while provoking widespread anger in the South. Stowe wrote 30 books, including novels, three travel memoirs, and collections of articles and letters. She was influential for both her writings and her public stances on social issues"
"old and rare books. Offstage Le Moyne was also known as a painter in the medium of watercolor. William J. Lemoyne died after several years of declining health on November 6, 1905, at a friend's residence in Inwood-on-the-Hudson (now Inwood), a neighborhood on the northern shore of Manhattan Island. William J. Le Moyne William J. Le Moyne (1831–1905) was an American actor who is credited with playing Deacon Perry in the first stage adaption of Harriet Beecher Stowe's anti-slavery novel, ""Uncle Tom's Cabin"". William J. Le Moyne (sometimes spelled Lemoyne or LeMoyne) was born on April 29, 1831, in Boston,"
"something as destructive as enslavement of fellow human beings. ""Uncle Tom's Cabin"" was the best-selling novel of the 19th century and the second best-selling book of that century, following the Bible. It is credited with helping fuel the abolitionist cause in the 1850s. In the first year after it was published, 300,000 copies of the book were sold in the United States; one million copies in Great Britain. In 1855, three years after it was published, it was called ""the most popular novel of our day."" The impact attributed to the book is great, reinforced by a story that when"
"of many Englishwomen affected by the 1852 anti-slavery novel ""Uncle Tom's Cabin"". The following year at her mother's house, the Duchess helped draft a letter titled ""An Affectionate and Christian Address of Many Thousands of Women of Great Britain and Ireland to Their Sisters, the Women of the United States of America"". The letter, eventually signed by 562,848 women, called for an end to slavery because the institution did not recognise slave marriages, led to parent-children separations, and prevented slaves from receiving Christian educations. It was sent to the author of ""Uncle Tom's Cabin"", the American abolitionist author Harriet Beecher"
"selling 10,000 copies in the United States in its first week; 300,000 in the first year; and in Great Britain, 1.5 million copies in one year. Following publication of the book, Harriet Beecher Stowe became a celebrity, speaking against slavery both in America and Europe. She wrote ""A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin"" in 1853, extensively documenting the realities on which the book was based, to refute critics who tried to argue that it was inauthentic; and published a second anti-slavery novel, ""Dred"", in 1856. Later, when she visited President Abraham Lincoln, the family's oral tradition states that he greeted"
"Tabitha Gilman Tenney Tabitha Gilman Tenney (1762–1837) was an early American author from Exeter, New Hampshire. Her novel ""Female Quixotism, Exhibited in the Romantic Opinions and Extravagant Adventures of Dorcasina Sheldon"", which followed Cervantes in attacking the delusions encouraged by romantic literature, was first published in two volumes in 1801. Literary historian F. L. Patee has described ""Female Quixotism"" (1801) as the most popular novel written in America prior to the publication of ""Uncle Tom's Cabin"" in 1852. ""Female Quixotism"" went through at least five editions and was still in print when Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote her landmark book. In"
"instantly popular, such that several protests were sent to the ""Era"" office when she missed an issue. Because of the story's popularity, the publisher John P. Jewett contacted Stowe about turning the serial into a book. While Stowe questioned if anyone would read ""Uncle Tom's Cabin"" in book form, she eventually consented to the request. Convinced the book would be popular, Jewett made the unusual decision (for the time) to have six full-page illustrations by Hammatt Billings engraved for the first printing. Published in book form on March 20, 1852, the novel sold 3,000 copies on that day alone, and"
"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"
"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 ""Uncle Tom's Cabin"", and the brother of renowned Congregationalist minister, Henry Ward Beecher. He also had another prominent and activist sister, Catharine Beecher. He attended Boston Latin School and Lawrence Academy in Groton, Massachusetts, graduated from Bowdoin College in 1834, and then attended Lane"
"The Life of Josiah Henson, Formerly a Slave, Now an Inhabitant of Canada, as Narrated by Himself The Life of Josiah Henson, Formerly a Slave, Now an Inhabitant of Canada, as Narrated by Himself is a slave narrative written by Josiah Henson, who would later become famous for being the basis of the title character from Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel ""Uncle Tom's Cabin"". ""The Life of Josiah Henson"", published in 1849, is Henson's first work but was dictated to Samuel A. Eliot, who was a former Boston Mayor known for his anti-slavery views. Although Henson was an accomplished orator, he"
"nesreči"" (1836), a family adventure story by Janez Cigler. Critics praised it as the ideal of folk-literature, comparing its influence to the one by Robinson Crusoe. The story earned its great popularity because of the exotic settings of France, Russia, Spain, Africa, Trieste, Vienna. Translations of popular fiction preceded the original narrative production. ""Uncle Tom's Cabin"" by Harriet Beecher Stowe was translated twice in 1853, only one year after it was first published in America. With the exception of books aimed at a low-class reader, German narratives were not translated, as a Slovene educated reader was bilingual and was therefore"
"Anti-Tom literature Anti-Tom literature refers to the 19th century pro-slavery novels and other literary works written in response to Harriet Beecher Stowe's ""Uncle Tom's Cabin"". Also called plantation literature, these writings were generally written by authors from the Southern United States. Books in the genre attempted to show either that slavery was beneficial to African Americans or that the evils of slavery as depicted in Stowe's book were overblown and incorrect. First published in serialized form from 1851–52 (in the abolitionist journal ""The National Era""), and in book form in 1852, ""Uncle Tom's Cabin"" by Harriet Beecher Stowe quickly became"