He found friends and allies in the North, including Harriet Beecher Stowe, the author of “Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” who hid him as ...

In 1853, Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of the anti-slavery novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin, wrote a letter to William Lloyd Garrison about their mutual friend, Frederick Douglass. Garrison and Douglass ...

Increased interest in the role of women and minorities in establishing the canon of American literature has led to renewed interest in Uncle Tom's Cabin. The essays in this volume set out to provide ...

In Uncle Tom's Cabin, Stowe made millions of Americans see slavery for the first time through the eyes of its victims.