Uncle Tom's Cabin and the Mid 19th Century U.S. Charley Harper This powerful and necessary tale

This powerful and necessary tale from Black American history brings to brilliant life the forgotten heroes of the Ripley

THE SELLING OF SZELL

HARRY OF THE WEST

Beautiful archival photographs and informative text allows the reader to take a nostalgic journey back in time to visit some of the lost treasures that the city let slip through its grasp

Uncle Tom's Cabin and the Mid 19th Century U.S. Charley Harper This powerful and necessary taleHarriet Beecher Stowes novel was the critical event of literature and race relations in nineteenth century America. No other event had such an impact upon the slavery issue. While Mrs. Stowe wrote the weekly installments (a long serial in an antislavery paper) of Uncle Toms Cabin she was living in genteel poverty, the harassed mother of six married to a scholarly but impractical man. A devoted mother who identified with the slave mother, a devout