The publication of "Uncle Tom's Cabin"

My wife Letitia and I had four children together, Caroline Matilda, William Wilberforce, Robert George, and our littlest Frances Ellen. Our sons grew up and reached their dreams, our daughters aswell grew up to be smart, and brave young women.
Harriet Beecher Stowe is another smart, brave women and should applauded for her work on Uncle Tom's Cabin. When the book was published in 1852 (sold 300,000 copies in a year), Caroline was only 4 years old-- imagine my hope to raise a child in a time, where I could prove she wasn't hated by everyone. I respect Harriet and her family. She came from a very religious family with father, brothers, and cousins all ministers. Growing up with anti-slavery views based off religion gives my people hope. Her hatred toward slavery prompted her to publish other works like 'Life among the Lowly'. The way Stowe depicted slavery highlighted its cruelty, inhumanity, and its destructive impact on family, faith, and spirit. Her intelligence and determination was used to its greatest potential and I respect her. Her well written works appealed to the sentimentality of the Northerners and made slavery a personal issue. That's opposed to the 'distance system of labour' or 'expolitation of slavery' views previously held in the north.

Oh, and the shameful act the infuriated southerners made-- making 'Uncle Tom' a derogatory term simply shows how un-humane they are. That's all the recognition they'll get.

-- D.W.