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From: International Herald Tribune
Date: 19971027
Author:Brian Knowlton

Brian Knowlton
International Herald Tribune
10-27-1997
The house in Litchfield, Connecticut, where the author Harriet Beecher Stowe was born has been purchased for a symbolic $1, to be moved and reopened as a museum. Her 1850 book, ''Uncle Tom's Cabin, or Life Among the Lowly,'' was a stirring anti-slavery tract that sold an astonishing 300,000 copies, mobilizing opinion in the North against slavery while angering the South. President Abraham Lincoln considered it a prime factor in bringing on the Civil War, the nation's bloodiest conflict. The Stowe house, now in disrepair, will be opened ...

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