Heather Cox Richardson and 250 to 250: Harriet Beecher Stowe, Narrated by Roxana Robinson
Roxana Robinson is an award-winning novelist, biographer, scholar, and the great-great-great niece of Harriet Beecher Stowe. Robinson recounts how Harriet Beecher Stowe’s 1852 “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” changed how millions of Americans thought about human enslavement.
Harriet Beecher Stowe was a writer who opposed slavery.
- She grew up in an abolitionist family.
- Abolitionists believed slavery was wrong.
- She saw the effects of slavery for herself.
- Stowe wrote more than 30 books.
Her most famous book was Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- The book was published in 1852.
- It told the stories of enslaved African Americans.
- The stories showed the cruelty and sadness of slavery.
- Many readers felt sympathy for enslaved people.
- The book helped more Americans oppose slavery.
- Uncle Tom's Cabin became very popular.
- It sold more copies than almost any other book in the 1800s.
- Some people in the South strongly disagreed with the book.
- The novel helped change public opinion about slavery.
- Harriet Beecher Stowe's writing influenced American history.
POP Interview and Civics Quiz:
- N-400 Part 9:07d. Have you EVER ordered, incited, called for, committed, assisted, helped with, or otherwise participated in intentionally and severely injuring or trying to injure any person?
- USCIS 100:06 What is one right or freedom from the First Amendment?
- USCIS 100:60 / 128:75. What group of people was taken and sold as slaves?
- USCIS 128:96. What U.S. war ended slavery?
Family Fun:
- The National Abolition Hall of Fame and Museum: Anti-Racism Resources
- Harriet Beecher Stowe House: Cincinnati Abolition: Places and People Integral to Abolition and the Underground Railroad
- NPS: Uncle Tom's Cabin lesson plan
- PBS: American Experience: The Abolitionists (stream online or borrow the DVD from your library)
- Smithsonian Learning Lab: Harriet Beecher Stowe coloring page
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