Black History Month: Cincinnati's contributions to the Negro Motorist Green Book
The Negro Motorist Green Book was a must-have for Black travelers during the Jim Crow era and some Cincinnati businesses ...
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Bringing the Reality of Slavery Home to Harriet Beecher Stowe
One alarming feature of Susanna Ashton’s book is how much racism he experienced in Canada ... never gave up on the aspirations and the dignity of Black lives that Harriet Beecher Stowe wanted to ...
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Harriet Beecher Stowe
The daughter of a strict Calvinist minister, Harriet Beecher later married a professor who encouraged her to write the book after they moved to Maine. Abraham Lincoln allegedly called her "the ...
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Letter to Garrison from Harriet Beecher Stowe
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 ...
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History of the House
The Stowe family moved to Brunswick in 1850 for Harriet’s husband, Calvin ... once to see a man who had brought me some barrels of apples . . . once to see a book-man . . . then to nurse the baby; ...
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Black history reimagined through a photographer’s lens
The items White photographed paint a vivid portrait of Black history in the United States. One photograph shows a piece of ...
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Harriet Beecher Stowe House
The Harriet Beecher Stowe House, located at 63 Federal Street in Brunswick, Maine, was the rented home of Harriet Beecher Stowe and her family from 1850 to 1852. During Stowe’s time in Brunswick, she ...