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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TheNickelGuy, post: 8218881, member: 20201&quot;]<font size="6"><b>1974 Uncle Toms Cabin</b></font></p><p><b>Danbury Mint 39mm</b></p><p><b>Sterling Silver Medal</b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p>I bought this one since I have an old copy of the book from Harriet Beecher Stowe. And I have read it.<b></b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>[ATTACH=full]1443050[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1443052[/ATTACH] </b></p><p><br /></p><p>Harriet Beecher was born June 14, 1811, the seventh child of a famous protestant preacher. Harriet worked as a teacher with her older sister Catharine.</p><p>In 1836, Harriet married widower Calvin Stowe: they eventually had seven children. Stowe helped to support her family financially by writing for local and religious periodicals.</p><p>During her life, she wrote poems, travel books, biographical sketches, and children&#039;s books, as well as adult novels. She met and corresponded with people as varied as Lady Byron, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and Mary Ann Evans who used the male pen name George Eliot.</p><p><br /></p><p>While she wrote at least ten adult novels, Harriet Beecher Stowe is predominantly known for her first, Uncle Tom&#039;s Cabin (1852). </p><p>Begun as a serial for the Washington anti-slavery weekly, the National Era, it focused public interest on the issue of slavery, and was deeply controversial.</p><p><br /></p><p>In writing the book, Stowe drew on her personal experience as she was familiar with slavery, the antislavery movement, and the underground railroad because Kentucky, across the Ohio River from Cincinnati, Ohio, where Stowe had lived, was a slave state.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1443054[/ATTACH]</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Following publication of the book, she became a celebrity, speaking against slavery both in America and Europe. </p><p>She wrote A Key to Uncle Tom&#039;s Cabin (1853) extensively documenting the realities on which the book was based, to refute critics who tried to argue that it was inauthentic, and published a second anti-slavery novel, Dred in 1856.</p><p><br /></p><p>In 1862, when she visited President Lincoln, legend claims that he greeted her as &quot;the little lady who made this big war&quot; meaning the Civil War between the states.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1443053[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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