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This Week In Black History
From: New Pittsburgh Courier
Date: 20070613
Author:Taylor, Robert N
Week of June 14-20
June 14
1811-White anti-slavery activist Harriet Beecher Stowe is born. Stowe was the author of one of the best selling books of 1852-Uncle Tom's Cabin. The book addressed the brutality of slavery and featured the character of "Uncle Tom"-a slave who, perhaps unfairly, came to symbolize the accommodating Black person who showed complete deference to whites. The book was such an indictment of slavery that when President Abraham Lincoln met Stowe he remarked, "You're the little woman who wrote the book that started this great (civil) war."
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