Family and the active reform work in the 19th century. You will find collections about antislavery and abolition in new england, particularly connecticut as well as womens history as it relates to the suffrage movement. The center began collecting works on and by Harriet Beecher star and come as early as our founder in 1930s and 40s but she found our organization in 1931 and weve been collecting ever since. This archive archive vault was n the 1970s to house really rare documents, paperbased collection. Today well look at collections that focus on Harriet Beecher still and a how she came to wrie local pubs cabinet of her most famous antislavery novel which galvanized the Antislavery Movement towards abolition in the 1850s. These materials we look at today really are the platform for which we are able to tell her story. Without the collections and the building that she lived in we can tell her story as best we know what but these are tangible reference to the past. User papers and documents she touched. These are books that people all over the country and beyond red waiting for the next installment and copy at addition to, so they could give it as a gift. The objects really speak to the power of Harriet Beecher stowe and Uncle Toms Cabin had on the american and international society. The first thing we will talk about is whats called a circular letter. Its a rather large letter. Theres a series of about 40 of them, and the amazing thing about them is that was started by one person and family who folded up and mailed it to the next sibling and family who added their portion of the story or their news and passed onto the next and the next and the next. As it got added on to became a very much build document, to the point where they are cramming in last minute notes at the end. So the Beecher Family really was an Amazing Group of reformers. Harriet Beecher Stowes father was the foremost calvinist minister in new england when she was a child. Child. He raised all 11 of his children to be moral forces in society. They had to do good, a positive change within the appropriate spheres of course apply to the 19th century which meant that the four girls had to find other acceptable platforms to speak. Harriet Beecher Stowe stows way of speaking was through writing and publishing stories. From the early 1830s and series of letters, at this point in her career she was writing short stories. She was the mother of five children at that point and she was struggling to make ends meet. Her husband was a professor. A career that didnt pay that well so she had to take care of the household words and her children the best thing she could do was right. She knew she was good at it and so thats what she did the she decides to write a short story of four installments, four chapters, for newspaper called a national era. Theres one of them right here. She begins to write but she quickly realizes that its going to be a much longer story. So she needs to provide substance and documentation. Even though its a novel she wants it to be stated in reality. She writes to formerly enslaved people like frederick douglass, and while shes writing in the national era, we have a letter dated july 9, 1851, where she states you may perhaps have noticed in your editorial reading a series of articles i am furnishing for the era titled Uncle Toms Cabin. She goes on to ask for information for true life stories about really what its like to be enslaved in the insistent on the plantation, as he is one who has the experience. Another verse in who she used true life experiences, took from for the character of uncle tom was josiah henson. Just science and, photograph is here, was an enslaved person in maryland who found his way, escaped through to canada to dresden ontario and formed the settlement. Theres a museum there today in his honor. His narrative really speaks to come of course as all do, struggles to make a decision to change your life and to get through freedom. So Harriet Beecher stowes story of Uncle Toms Cabin was published as a serial in the national era and it took almost quite a year to republish the whole story, much longer than she expected. She missed two deadlines come to weekly deadlines. Stories that subscribers to the newspapers were up in arms because they really wanted to the next installment of it was that popular. By march of 1852, three months before the end of the father, they decide to contract with a publisher, a book publisher to publish it as a book but it was finally published as a two volume book, which is seen here, march 20, 1852. Very simple. These two are clothbound examples. Published by john p. Jewett out of boston. The publisher created a short version for children called pictures and stories of Uncle Toms Cabin. Very quickly the popularity of those books takes off, and merchandise starts to of your. Starts as simple things like childrens books, and then theres international editions. Very quickly french and german, first, and then on to other countries, and it is still published worldwide today. In over 70 language. The mass commercialization moves us into all types of things for the home. Now the story and the characters, because of copyright, are no longer under her jurisdiction. Uncle toms cabin wallpaper was one of the main pieces of merchandise that was produced outside of the control of Harriet Beecher stowe. And wallpaper, this is a british print. Its very cheap of me because it was quickly produced for the mass market, and the only examples of it exists in a nursery outside of melbourne, australia. That speaks to the International Power the story had worldwide success of the book that people wanted to have an emotional piece, a connection to the story in their own homes in so much as they are teaching their children in a nursery, including scenes with the dagger and the death of uncle tom. What does that tell you about society at the time . Abolitionists such as William Lloyd garrison did not of course not notice oco funds cabin. Is antiabolitionist newspaper, the liberator, published a story in january of 1853 called Uncle Toms Cabin media. In which, i am paraphrasing, it is such a manic love of this book and that folks have really attached themselves to the characters, he says its taking away from the power to end abolition. Folks are getting lost in the human connections theyre making with these characters and a melodrama in the style attribute Uncle Toms Cabin was so popular as a stage production that more americans saw the play then read the book. Also speaking to the popularity can one of the first movies ever made in the United States was a porter at this and film, Uncle Toms Cabin, in 1903. For everyone knew the story for it was going to sell. People would buy the tickets were stage production or a film, and he was just part of american culture, and still is today. Her characters you will see you on the poster, this is supposed to be the liza and her son harry and enslaved people who are escaping to join her husband, her father in north canada. They are stopping over in a cabin, excuse me, a bar. Hiding, but to realize the gentlemen who have come to find them either, so they are escaping out the window. Its very colorful. You can see the theatricality of the image, very rosy cheeks, red lips, heavy makeup the this dates to the early 20th century. You can see that this specific Stage Company has chosen to put a photograph of Abraham Lincoln on one end of the title and Harriet Beecher stowe herself on the other end of the title to get his adaptation of the play real authority. There is one story that she went to a production here in hartford, i think in the late 1860s, and she left before it was finished because she didnt recognize her characters. They have become so theatrical that they were not proving the point her novel was supposed to make. Because Uncle Toms Cabin was such an international bestseller, it became very popular in Great Britain, england before any other country because Great Britain had ended slavery and the slave trade in the 1830s. British abolitionists invited stowe over to england and give her the grand tour this is some good never been abroad at all. Remember, shes the daughter of a yankee minister, so not coming from money, and her husband and she did not make a lot of money. So this is quite something first for her to be thrown into celebrity and receive money all of the sudden, but also to be taken and invited over and treated as royalty in such a way. She was presented with a number of gifts. One of which was 26 large volumes, just like this. This is one of them. They are a petition signed only by women, and its not half a million signatures of women who believe slavery should end in the United States. She was to take this petition i can use it as a political comic use it for political purposes to really end slavery in the United States. This as a year after Uncle Toms Cabin comes out as a book, and all of these women, half a million signatures, were collected in a grassroots effort. We believe by women in church groups, sewing circles, however sort of womens gro
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