SECTIONAL CRISIS 1850 1861
UNCLE TOMS CABIN
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Ohio
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Kentucky
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Indiana
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Detailed explanation-1: -Beecher Stowe’s Popular Work Uncle Tom’s Cabin, ” was printed in Louisville, Kentucky in 1853, and depicted the calamity that would be caused by abolitionism.
Detailed explanation-2: -Marker: Uncle Tom’s Cabin Site, Paint Lick, Kentucky.
Detailed explanation-3: -The book begins in the mid-19th century on the Shelby plantation in Kentucky, where Uncle Tom lives in a cabin with his wife and children. After fellow slave Eliza, the “favorite” of Mrs. Shelby, learns that her son is being sold, she flees north up through Ohio and on to Canada with her husband, also an escaped slave.
Detailed explanation-4: -THE LITERARY WORK A novel set in the slave states of Kentucky and Louisiana and the free state of Ohio in 1850; published in 1852.
Detailed explanation-5: -According to Rankin, in February 1838, a young slave woman, Eliza Harris, had escaped across the frozen Ohio River to the town of Ripley with her child in her arms and stayed at his house on her way farther north.