Crusader in Crinoline: The Life of Harriet Beecher StoweAn absorbingly interesting portrait of a personality and an age. |
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... summer of 1852. By that time great things had happened . He could consider himself a rich man . Meanwhile , though his prospects were so bright in the summer of 1850 , his family faced the brutal fact that for a long time it would have ...
... summer of 1852. By that time great things had happened . He could consider himself a rich man . Meanwhile , though his prospects were so bright in the summer of 1850 , his family faced the brutal fact that for a long time it would have ...
Page 267
... summer , as federal prosecutors tried to indict for treason persons who flouted the Fugitive Slave Law , and the discredited Webster was thundering , " This agitation must cease ! " And there were family events to claim a share of ...
... summer , as federal prosecutors tried to indict for treason persons who flouted the Fugitive Slave Law , and the discredited Webster was thundering , " This agitation must cease ! " And there were family events to claim a share of ...
Page 560
... summer Georgie Stowe Allen was brought to bed of a male child whom Harriet described as " very pretty , very gracious and good , and his little mamma and he are a pair . " As Annie Fields had predicted , Harriet was " being first lady ...
... summer Georgie Stowe Allen was brought to bed of a male child whom Harriet described as " very pretty , very gracious and good , and his little mamma and he are a pair . " As Annie Fields had predicted , Harriet was " being first lady ...
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