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A STOP ON FREEDOM ROAD MUSEUM TELLS STOWE'S STORY.(POSTEXTRA)

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From: The Kentucky Post (Covington, KY)
Date: 19970917
Author:Vaughn, Melinda Myers

Byline: Melinda Myers Vaughn, Post contributor

It is well known that Harriet Beecher Stowe spent many years in Cincinnati, and that the border town's abolitionist debates helped form her opinions about the plight of slaves in the South.

But, if local legend is right, it may have been the events of one brief weekend in 1833 in the little town of Washington, Ky., that most influenced her abolitionist novel, ''Uncle Tom's Cabin.''

''One of her pupils from her father's seminary in Cincinnati lived here,'' said Bobbie Tucker, head of an effort to establish a local museum ...

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