Harriet Beecher Stowe

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Harriet Beecher Stowe, engraving, 1872, after an oil painting by Alonzo Chappel.

Illustration of Eliza carrying her son across icy stepping stones on the Ohio River at night, pursued by three men, from an 1870 theatrical poster for Uncle Tom's Cabin.

Scene from Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin showing the body of Uncle Tom, who has been beaten to death by slave owner Simon Legree, and the angels, including Eva, awaiting his presence in heaven.

Illustration from Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin that depicts Eva's death, c. 1870.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

Harriet Beecher Stowe, c. 1880

Topsy (left) and Little Eva, characters from Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin (1851–52); lithograph by Louisa Corbaux, 1852.

Color illustration from Uncle Tom's Cabin showing a slave auction scene, with a group of enslaved people on a platform and a trader examining a man for sale in front of a crowd.

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American writer and educator

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Harriet Beecher Stowe, engraving, 1872, after an oil painting by Alonzo Chappel.

Harriet Beecher Stowe, engraving, 1872, after an oil painting by Alonzo Chappel.

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Illustration of Eliza carrying her son across icy stepping stones on the Ohio River at night, pursued by three men, from an 1870 theatrical poster for Uncle Tom's Cabin.

Uncle Tom's Cabin poster

Poster for a theatrical production of Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin...

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Scene from Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin showing the body of Uncle Tom, who has been beaten to death by slave owner Simon Legree, and the angels, including Eva, awaiting his presence in heaven.

Scene from Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin showing the body of...

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Illustration from Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin that depicts Eva's death, c. 1870.

Illustration from Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin that depicts...

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Stowe, Harriet Beecher

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

Harriet Beecher Stowe, daguerreotype by Southworth & Hawes, c. 1856.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, gift of I.N. Phelps Stokes, Edward S. Hawes, Alice Mary Hawes, and Marion Augusta Hawes, 1937, (37.14.40), www.metmuseum.org

Harriet Beecher Stowe, c. 1880

Harriet Beecher Stowe, c. 1880

Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852) was credited with...

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Topsy (left) and Little Eva, characters from Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin (1851–52); lithograph by Louisa Corbaux, 1852.

Topsy (left) and Little Eva, characters from Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's...

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Color illustration from Uncle Tom's Cabin showing a slave auction scene, with a group of enslaved people on a platform and a trader examining a man for sale in front of a crowd.

Uncle Tom's Cabin

Harley, the slave trader, examining one of the human lots up for auction; illustration...

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