The interval since my publication of "The True Story of Lady Byron's Life" has been one of stormy discussion and of much invective. I have not thought it necessary to disturb my spirit and confuse my sense of right by even an attempt at reading the many abusive articles that both here and in England have followed that disclosure. Friends have undertaken the task for me, giving me from time to time the substance of anything really worthy of attention which came to view in the tumult. It appeared to me essential that this first excitement should in a measure spend itself before there would be a...

La cabana del tio Tom (Uncle Tom's Cabin) es una novela de la escritora Harriet Beecher Stowe. Se publico por primera vez el 20 de marzo de 1852. La obra tiene la esclavitud como tema central. Narra dos historias paralelas: la del negro de la casa y el negro del campo. El primero, el tio Tom, complaciente y obediente, sin poder imaginar un futuro fuera de la plantacion; el segundo, dispuesto a todo para lograr su libertad y la de su familia.

Elisa fled with his son Tom is sold on the Mississippi In the nineteenth century, Kentucky, Southern State, Mr Shelby, wealthy planter and his wife, Emily, treat their slaves with kindness. But the couple fears losing the plantation for debt and decided to sell two of their slaves: Uncle Tom, a middle-aged man with a wife and children, and Harry, son of Elisa, servant of Emily. This idea is repugnant to Emily who had promised her maid that her son would never be sold; and the husband of Emily, George Shelby, does not wish to see from Tom he considers a friend and mentor. Lorsqu'Elisa...

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Uncle Tom's Cabin is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. Published in 1852, the novel "helped lay the groundwork for the Civil War," according to Will Kaufman.
Stowe, a Connecticut-born teacher at the Hartford Female Seminary and an active abolitionist, featured the character of Uncle Tom, a long-suffering black slave around whom the stories of other characters revolve. The sentimental novel depicts the reality of slavery while also asserting that Christian...

Harriet Elisabeth Beecher Stowe June 14, 1811 - July 1, 1896) was an American abolitionist and author. Queer Little Folks was written by Harriet Beecher Stowe and first published in 1897. Once there was a nice young hen that we will call Mrs. Feathertop. She was a hen of most excellent family, being a direct descendant of the Bolton Grays, and as pretty a young fowl as you could wish to see of a summer's day. She was, moreover, as fortunately situated in life as it was possible for a hen to be. She was bought by young Master Fred Little John, with four or five family connections of hers, and...

Having run up large debts, a Kentucky farmer named Arthur Shelby faces the prospect of losing everything he owns. Though he and his wife, Emily Shelby, have a kindhearted and affectionate relationship with their slaves, Shelby decides to raise money by selling two of his slaves to Mr. Haley, a coarse slave trader. The slaves in question are Uncle Tom, a middle-aged man with a wife and children on the farm, and Harry, the young son of Mrs. Shelby's maid Eliza. When Shelby tells his wife about his agreement with Haley, she is appalled because she has promised Eliza that Shelby would not sell...