To fight against slavery, the author collected true stories then picked up a pen and distilled them into “Uncle Tom’s Cabin”
The author and abolitionist, surrounded by silhouette renderings of vignettes from her vivid, world-changing novel.
Romy Blümel
“No one can have this system of slavery brought before him without an irrepressible desire to do something, and what is there to be done?”
Harriet Beecher Stowe was 26 when she posed that frustrated question in a letter to her husband. She had been married only a year, had just given birth to twins and didn’t care much for the abolitionists she’d encountered, calling them “unfashionable persons” and “moral mono-maniacs.” But if she could not join their movement, what could she do?
