Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. One evening in December 1850, an escaped slave named John Andrew Jackson arrived at a handsome, white clapboard house in Brunswick ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In this drawing from 'Uncle Tom's Cabin,' a Black child is taken from his mother by a white man. Culture Club/Getty Images In or ...

The book “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” has often been labeled as the kindling wood of the Civil War. Written in 1852 by Harriet Beecher Stowe, who was the child of a protestant preacher, it was originally ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) – A Clemson University professor is convinced that Harriet Beecher Stowe might not have written “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” if it were not for a fugitive South Carolina slave she ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Uncle Tom’s Cabin, by American author ...

An 1849 Cholera outbreak in Cincinnati claims Harriet Beecher Stowe's beloved son Charley. "I learned what a poor slave mother may feel when her child is torn away from her." Stowe would go on to ...

March 20 holds a place in history for major events. From medieval theories on the Black Death to the publication of 'Uncle ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Painted wood panel from a wagon used ...