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Home of Uncle Tom's Cabin author gets $150,000 preservation grant Home of Uncle Tom's Cabin author gets $150,000 preservation grant
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The former Connecticut home of Uncle Tom's Cabin author Harriet Beecher Stowe, which houses 6,000 objects and 200,000 manuscripts, pamphlets, books and images related to the writer, has received a $150,000 grant from the US government to help preserve the collection.The former Connecticut home of Uncle Tom's Cabin author Harriet Beecher Stowe, which houses 6,000 objects and 200,000 manuscripts, pamphlets, books and images related to the writer, has received a $150,000 grant from the US government to help preserve the collection.
The money comes hard on the heels of new research which claims to have identified for the first time the name of the slave whom Stowe hid and cared for at her home in Maine, where she wrote her influential 1852 novel. Susanna Ashton, professor of American literature at Clemson University, South Carolina, claims to have identified that man as John Andrew Jackson, a slave on a South Carolina plantation who escaped in 1847, fleeing Charleston and then stowing away between the bales of cotton on a ship heading north. Her conclusions are published in the summer edition of Common-Place, the journal of the American Antiquarian Society.The money comes hard on the heels of new research which claims to have identified for the first time the name of the slave whom Stowe hid and cared for at her home in Maine, where she wrote her influential 1852 novel. Susanna Ashton, professor of American literature at Clemson University, South Carolina, claims to have identified that man as John Andrew Jackson, a slave on a South Carolina plantation who escaped in 1847, fleeing Charleston and then stowing away between the bales of cotton on a ship heading north. Her conclusions are published in the summer edition of Common-Place, the journal of the American Antiquarian Society.
Historians have long known that the author hid a fugitive slave in her home. In an 1850 letter she wrote to her sister that he was "a genuine article from the 'Ole Carling State".Historians have long known that the author hid a fugitive slave in her home. In an 1850 letter she wrote to her sister that he was "a genuine article from the 'Ole Carling State".
Stowe's novel about the life of Uncle Tom, a black slave, energised the anti-slavery movement in the north of America and provoked anger in the south. It is believed by some researchers to have been a catalyst for the civil war and was one of the bestselling books of the 19th century.Stowe's novel about the life of Uncle Tom, a black slave, energised the anti-slavery movement in the north of America and provoked anger in the south. It is believed by some researchers to have been a catalyst for the civil war and was one of the bestselling books of the 19th century.
The Stowe collections in Connecticut, where she lived for the last 23 years of her life, tell of a woman who, despite the restrictive environment of her time, wrote a story that moved hearts and minds.The Stowe collections in Connecticut, where she lived for the last 23 years of her life, tell of a woman who, despite the restrictive environment of her time, wrote a story that moved hearts and minds.
The new government funding is additional to the centre's own investment of more than $400,000 to buy and install a new mechanical system, make climate and environmental-control improvements, and to install fire protection measures.The new government funding is additional to the centre's own investment of more than $400,000 to buy and install a new mechanical system, make climate and environmental-control improvements, and to install fire protection measures.
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