The book made Mrs Stowe an international celebrity and a hated figure in the South. On a tour of Britain she made friends among the great and good, was cheered at anti-slavery meetings and collected ample donations for the cause. Later she took up feminist causes, writing to George Eliot that the emancipation of slaves must be followed by the emancipation of women. She followed up with a book, Lady Byron Vindicated, in the following year.
She was denounced as a pornographer and deluged with torrents of abuse in the press, while Atlantic Monthly lost 15, outraged subscribers and was almost destroyed. Her reputation was shattered, but she published three more novels before her death in A giant annotated bibliography of her sources, the book pointing to hundreds of documented cases of real-life incidents that were similar or identical to those portrayed in her story. Stowe had named names.
She had described the various people who had inspired the characters of Mr. One of those characters, of course, was of particular interest. Who was Uncle Tom? Their real-life and fictional slave owners both separated a mother from her child while she begged him not to tear the family apart.
Both Josiah and Tom lived on plantations in Kentucky. Both would cross the Ohio River in their daring escapes. The parallels were close enough for prominent African-Americans to take notice.
Stowe and Messrs. I do not know what you may think about it; but it strikes me that this would be but just and right. Played by white men in blackface, Tom was a caricature, an old hunchback with poor English who would happily sell out his own race to curry favor with his owner. Even though the novel was the best-selling book of the century, considerably more people saw one of these racist performances than read the book.
The dates correspond exactly to the time during which he drafted the Emancipation Proclamation. But it is clear that the northern writer used her celebrity platform to powerfully sway public opinion toward emancipation. As Radical Republican leader and U. He supported black families whose husbands and fathers went off to fight in the Civil War. He ran businesses in Canada to employ black refugees.
In , at age 87, Henson did a plus city speaking tour of the United Kingdom to relieve himself of debts shouldered on behalf of the work at Dawn, and Queen Victoria invited him to Windsor Castle. Sixteen years after the Civil War ended, Rutherford B. Hayes entertained him at the White House. Henson died in Dresden, Ontario, in at the age of 93; the New York Times obituary included his literary connection in the first line. Constitution had tacitly acknowledged slavery, counting each enslaved person as three-fifths of a person for the purposes of taxation and Congressional representation.
House of Representatives. Stowe became a leading voice in the anti-slavery movement, and yet, her ideas about race were complicated. In letters to friends and family members, Stowe demonstrated that she did not believe in racial equality; she suggested, for example, that emancipated slaves should be sent to Africa, and she used derogatory language when describing black servants.
Though Stowe was earnest in her attempts to portray slavery as it really was—gathering an impressive array of facts, figures, and first-person testimonies to supplement her own observations—she would not have had the same insight or understanding as an enslaved person experiencing those conditions.
Her reliance on racial stereotypes exposed her misconceptions about black people, discrediting her authority even more. To protect her son, Eliza runs away, making a dramatic escape over the frozen Ohio River with Harry in her arms. Eventually the Harris family is reunited and journeys north to Canada. Tom protects his family by choosing not to run away so the others may stay together. Upon being sold south, he meets Topsy, a young black girl whose mischievous behavior hides her pain; Eva, an angelic, young white girl who is wise beyond her years; charming, elegant but passive St.
Simon Legree has Tom whipped to death for refusing to deny his faith or betray the hiding place of two fugitive women. John Hooker was a lawyer and an abolitionist. Her husband, John Hooker , believed in his wife and supported her activities.
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