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Charles E. Stowe, Harriet Beecher Stowe compiled from her letters and journals by her son Charles Edward Stowe, Chapter 6: removal to Brunswick, 1850-1852. (search)
wick when the letter alluded to was received. Mrs. Stowe herself read it aloud to the assembled family, and when she came to the passage, I would write something that would make this whole nation feel what an accursed thing slavery is, Mrs. Stowe rose up from her chair, crushing the letter in her hand, and with an expression on her face that stamped itself on the mind of her child, said: I will write something. I will if I live. This was the origin of Uncle Tom's Cabin, and Professor Cairnes has well said in his admirable work, The slave power, The Fugitive Slave Law has been to the slave power a questionable gain. Among its first-fruits was Uncle Tom's Cabin. The purpose of writing a story that should make the the whole nation feel that slavery was an accursed thing was not immediately carried out. In December, 1850, Mrs. Stowe writes: Tell sister Katy I thank her for her letter and will answer it. As long as the baby sleeps with me nights I can't do much at a
Charles E. Stowe, Harriet Beecher Stowe compiled from her letters and journals by her son Charles Edward Stowe, Index. (search)
ntess Guiccioli, 446; his position as viewed by Dr. Holmes, 457; evidence of his poems for and against him, 457. C. Cabin, the, literary centre, 185. Cairnes, Prof., on the Fugitive slave Law, 146. Calhoun falsifies census, 509. Calvinism, J. R. Lowell's sympathy with, 335. Cambridgeport, H. B. S. reads in, 491. hose letters are cherished, 508; death of, takes away a part of ourselves, 485. Friendship, opinion of, 50. Fugitive Slave Act, suffering caused by, 144; Prof. Cairnes on, 146; practically repealed, 384. Future life, glimpses of, leave strange sweetness, 513. Future punishment, ideas of, 340. G. Garrison, W. L., tfluence, 5; written under love's impulse, 52; fugitives' escape, foundation of story, 93; popular conception of author of, 127; origin and inspiration of, 145; Prof. Cairnes on, 146; Uncle Tom's death, conception of, 148; letter to Douglas about facts, 149; appears in the Era, 149, 156; came from heart, 153; a religious work, obje