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HARRIET BEECHER STOWE ONCE BASED A WORK IN DISMAL SWAMP.(LOCAL)

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From: The Virginian Pilot
Date: 19980615
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Byline: GEORGE TUCKER

Even the most casual dabbler into United States history knows that Harriet Beecher Stowe's ``Uncle Tom's Cabin,'' originally published in 1851 as a serial in a Washington, D.C., newspaper and later brought out in book form in 1852, was the most important American literary effort that contributed largely to the outbreak of the Civil War.

Few, however, are aware that Mrs. Stowe published an equally powerful polemic against the evils of human bondage in 1856 that had an eastern Virginia and North Carolina area as its setting. Titled ``Dred: A Tale of ...

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