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Book 'a symbol against oppression' LITERATURE: Welsh translation donated to university may have been 'rallying cry against the English'.(News)

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From: Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales)
Date: 20020315
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Byline: COLIN HUGHES

A RARE 19th-century Welsh language version of a controversial antislavery novel has been donated to a university.

Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel Uncle Tom's Cabin may have been translated into Welsh as a rallying cry against English oppression, it was claimed yesterday.

That is the theory put forward by a United States academic who has donated the work to the University of Wales, Swansea.

Dr David Lindstrom, from Colorado State University's English literature department, is spending several months at the ...

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