Weld contributed to the anti-slavery convictions of such men as Joshua R. Giddings and Edwin M. Stanton, enlisted John Quincy Adams, and helped provide ideas which underlay Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin.

Another verse was first recorded in Harriet Beecher Stowe's immensely influential 1852 anti-slavery novel Uncle Tom's Cabin.

As well as stories from the Old Testament, John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress and Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin, she grew up with Aesop ’ s Fables, the fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm and Hans Christian Andersen, Charles Kingsley's The Water Babies, the folk tales and mythology of Scotland, the German Romantics, Shakespeare, and the romances of Sir Walter Scott.

* 1851 – Harriet Beecher Stowe's anti-slavery serial, Uncle Tom's Cabin or, Life Among the Lowly starts a ten-month run in the National Era abolitionist newspaper.

Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin, the bestselling novel that fueled abolitionist work, was the best known of the anti-slavery novels that portrayed such escapes across the Ohio.

It became the best-selling American novel of the 19th century, surpassing Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin and is considered " the most influential Christian book of the ...

A 1901 stage adaptation of Uncle Tom's Cabin containing mixed elements of Harriet Beecher Stowe's original Christian martyr and the stock minstrel character of later adaptations.

Uncle Tom is the title character of Harriet Beecher Stowe's 1852 novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin.

At the time of the novel's initial publication in 1851 Uncle Tom was a rejection of the existing stereotypes of minstrel shows ; Stowe's melodramatic story humanized the suffering of slavery for White audiences by portraying Tom as a Christlike figure who is ultimately martyred, beaten to death by a cruel master because Tom refuses to betray the whereabouts of two women who escape from slavery.

According to Debra J. Rosenthal in an introduction to a collection of critical appraisals for the Routledge Literary Sourcebook on Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin, overall reactions have been mixed with some critics praising the novel for affirming the humanity of the African American characters and for the risks Stowe assumed in taking a very public stand against slavery before abolitionism had become a socially acceptable cause, and others criticizing the very limited terms upon which those characters ' humanity was affirmed and the artistic shortcomings of political melodrama.

After Stowe's death her son and grandson claimed she and Henson had met before Uncle Tom's Cabin was written, but the chronology does not hold up to scrutiny and she probably drew material only from his published autobiography.

Although not all minstrel depictions of Uncle Tom were negative, the dominant version developed into a stock character very different from Stowe's hero.

To Jo-Ann Morgan, author of Uncle Tom's Cabin as Visual Culture, these shifting representations undermined the subversive layers of Stowe's original characterization by redefining Uncle Tom until he fit within prevailing racist norms.

When Stowe's work became a best-seller, Henson republished his memoirs as The Memoirs of Uncle Tom and traveled on lecture tours extensively in the United States and Europe.

Stowe's novel lent its name to Henson's home — Uncle Tom's Cabin Historic Site, near Dresden, Ontario — which since the 1940s has been a museum.

" Because Christian themes play such a large role in Uncle Tom's Cabin — and because of Stowe's frequent use of direct authorial interjections on religion and faith — the novel often takes the " form of a sermon.

Georgiana May, a friend of Stowe's, wrote a letter to the author, saying, " I was up last night long after one o ' clock, reading and finishing Uncle Tom's Cabin.

Which of Stowe's characters should be emulated, the passive Uncle Tom or the defiant George Harris?

In response to Uncle Tom's Cabin, writers in the Southern United States produced a number of books to rebut Stowe's novel.

* Rosenthal, Debra J. Routledge Literary Sourcebook on Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin Routledge, 2003.

* University of Virginia Web site " Uncle Tom's Cabin and American Culture: A Multi-Media Archive "— edited by Stephen Railton, covers 1830 to 1930, offering links to primary and bibliographic sources on the cultural background, various editions, and public reception of Harriet Beecher Stowe's influential novel.

Lucas later played the title role in the 1914 cinematic production of Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin.

Conway's politically watered-down stage version of Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin ; the play, at Barnum's American Museum, gave the story a happy ending, with Tom and other slaves freed.

Starting in 1854 he played in one of the more prominent ( and one of the least abolitionist ) " Tom shows ", loosely based on Harriet Beecher Stowe's book.

He brought some of his father's emancipated slaves with him to work in his household, one of which was supposedly the model for Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom, she visited Noble's home on more than one occasion.

This non-fiction book was intended to verify Stowe's claims about slavery.

The character Eliza was inspired by an account given at Lane Theological Seminary in Cincinnati by John Rankin to Stowe's husband Calvin, a professor at the school.

A major part of the Key was Stowe's critique of how the legal system supported slavery and licensed owners ' mistreatment of slaves.

Stowe's solution was similar to Ralph Waldo Emerson's: God's will would be followed if each person sincerely examined his principles and acted on them.

Simms ' book was published a few months after Stowe's novel, and it contains a number of sections and discussions disputing Stowe's book and her view of slavery.

For several decades after the end of the silent film era, the subject matter of Stowe's novel was judged too sensitive for further film interpretation.

Concerned about the plight of Native Americans in southern California and elsewhere, and inspired by her friend Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel Uncle Tom's Cabin, Helen Hunt Jackson's novel Ramona was published in November 1884.

This paper had a considerable circulation, and in it, in 1851 — 1852, Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin was first published.

Stowe's daughter Hattie reported, " It was a very droll time that we had at the White house I assure you ...

In the 1870s, Stowe's brother Henry Ward Beecher was accused of adultery, and became the subject of a national scandal.

In 1833, during Stowe's time in Cincinnati, the city was afflicted with a serious cholera epidemic.

* Hubert Scott-Paine, ( the boss of R. J. Mitchell at Supermarine, who designed the Spitfire ), was born in 1890 in Shoreham and had a yacht in Stowe's Yard, before moving to Southampton.

This judge was constrained by the law from providing relief ; this fit with Stowe's belief that law and judges — and religious leaders, too — could not be expected to help end slavery.

It was reported In John Stowe's Annals that in December 1596 during a church sermon at Wells in Somerset, England ;

" She was inspired by her friend Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin ( 1852 ).

The novel was written a decade before Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin.

One of the earliest fictionalized versions of the mammy figure was Aunt Chloe in Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin ( 1852 ).