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Harriet Beecher Stowe Autograph Quotation Signed from her book, Uncle Tom's Cabin. ...
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Stowe quotes from Uncle Tom's Cabin: "...not one tear of the oppressed is forgotten by the Man of Sorrows..."
Harriet Beecher Stowe Autograph Quotation Signed from her
book, Uncle Tom's Cabin. One page, 205 x
154 mm. No place, February 19, 1894. Signed, "Harriet Beecher
Stowe."The quote reads, in full:
Not one throb of anguish, not one tear of the oppressed is forgotten by the Man of Sorrows the Lord of Glory. In His patient generous bosom He bears the anguish of a world.
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Chap 12th
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Feby 19th 1894.
The context in which this appears in the book involves the river boat trip on which the slave trader Haley conducted Tom and other Kentucky slaves southward to be sold as plantation hands. At Louisville, Haley surreptitiously sells the baby of the newly traded slave woman, Lucy, when she briefly left in hopes of finding her husband at the wharf. Crushed, she commits suicide by jumping into the Ohio River that night, with Tom as a witness. This passage immediately follows Lucy's suicide, and Stowe obviously intended it as a powerful and encouraging statement in the midst of continual discrimination and the burgeoning Jim Crowe laws. The acceptance of Uncle Tom's Cabin at face value by people in the North was a major factor in the development of the Civil War, staunchly winning over those who, until the book's publication, had been indifferent to the horrors of slavery and the cause of the abolitionists. It remains one of the most influential novels ever written.
Condition: Apparently removed from an album or volume with left-hand margin a bit rough; a few minor smudges or spotting; minor soiling.
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