Crusader in Crinoline: The Life of Harriet Beecher StoweAn absorbingly interesting portrait of a personality and an age. |
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Page 142
... brought by the slow mails , and in New York an aghast Evangelist wanted to know in what age and country we were living , " and with whose endow- ments was the Seminary founded ? and who is its president ? " The promised prohibition ...
... brought by the slow mails , and in New York an aghast Evangelist wanted to know in what age and country we were living , " and with whose endow- ments was the Seminary founded ? and who is its president ? " The promised prohibition ...
Page 179
... brought on the war . To gain a true picture of the great con- tention , it is necessary to bear in mind the not always appreciated fact that abolitionism began as a Southern and not a Northern movement and re- mained almost entirely ...
... brought on the war . To gain a true picture of the great con- tention , it is necessary to bear in mind the not always appreciated fact that abolitionism began as a Southern and not a Northern movement and re- mained almost entirely ...
Page 302
... brought out a pirated pamphlet edition , but he was too far away for Harriet to do anything about it . In England Uncle Tom was causing one of those sudden , vast emo- tional upheavals which make a modern sceptic wonder if there were ...
... brought out a pirated pamphlet edition , but he was too far away for Harriet to do anything about it . In England Uncle Tom was causing one of those sudden , vast emo- tional upheavals which make a modern sceptic wonder if there were ...
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Abolitionists American Andover anti-slavery Atlantic Aunt Esther began Boston Bowdoin British Brooklyn brother brought Brunswick called Calvin Stowe Catharine Beecher Charles Charles Beecher Charley Christian Union church Cincinnati daughter dear Dred editor Edward Eliza England eyes father feel Fred gave George girls hand Harriet Beecher Stowe Harriet wrote Hartford heart Henry Ward Beecher Henry's Howard husband Joel Parker John knew Lady Byron Lane Seminary later letter Litchfield literary lived London Lord Lyman Beecher Mandarin Mary Perkins mind Minister's Wooing Miss morning mother never North novel Ohio once paper Parker Professor Stowe published Roxana seemed serial sister slave slavery South story Stowe's Street summer Theodore Tilton thing thought Tilton told took Uncle Tom's Cabin Walnut Hills wanted week wife winter woman words writing York young