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pity by doing all you can for them.
Never, if you can help it, let a colored child be shut out from school or treated with neglect and contempt on account of his color.
Remember the sweet example of little Eva, and try to feel the same regard for all that she did. Then, when you grow up, I hope the foolish and unchristian prejudice against people merely on account of their complexion will be done away with.
Farewell, dear children, until we meet again.
With the completion of the story the editor of the “Era” wrote:
Mrs. Stowe has at last brought her great work to a close.
We do not recollect any production of an American writer that has excited more general and profound interest.
For the story as a serial the author received $300. In the mean time, however, it had attracted the attention of
Mr. John P. Jewett, a Boston publisher, who promptly made overtures for its publication in book form.
He offered Mr. and
Mrs. Stowe a half share in the profits, provided they would share with him the expense of publication.
This was refused by
Professor Stowe, who said he was altogether too poor to assume any such risk; and the agreement finally made was that the author should receive a ten per cent. royalty upon all sales.
Mrs. Stowe had no reason to hope for any large pecuniary gain from this publication, for it was practically her first book.
To be sure, she had, in 1832, prepared a small school geography for a Western publisher, and ten years later the Harpers had brought out her “Mayflower.”
Still, neither of these had been sufficiently remunerative to cause her to regard literary work
