LITERATURE QUESTIONS
AFRICAN AMERICAN LITERATURE
Question
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Harriet Beecher Stowe
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Richard Wright
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Frederick Douglass
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Phillis Wheatley
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Detailed explanation-1: -Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote the novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852), which vividly dramatized the experience of slavery.
Detailed explanation-2: -Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896) published more than 30 books, but it was her best-selling anti-slavery novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin that catapulted her to international celebrity and secured her place in history.
Detailed explanation-3: -Harriet Beecher Stowe’s anti-slavery novel, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, is published. The novel sold 300, 000 copies within three months and was so widely read that when President Abraham Lincoln met Stowe in 1862, he reportedly said, “So this is the little lady who made this big war.”
Detailed explanation-4: -Uncle Tom’s Cabin. On June 5, 1851, Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly began to appear in serial form in The National Era, an abolitionist weekly published in Washington, D.C. Harriet Beecher Stowe’s anti-slavery story was published in forty installments over the next ten months. For her story Mrs.
Detailed explanation-5: -Uncle Tom’s Cabin, in full Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly, novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe, published in serialized form in the United States in 1851–52 and in book form in 1852.