Harriet Beecher Stowe
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Harriet Elisabeth Beecher Stowe was an American author and abolitionist. She came from the Beecher family and wrote a popular novel called Uncle Tom's Cabin, which depicts the harsh conditions experie
Stowe c. 1870
Portrait of Stowe by Alanson Fisher, 1853 (National Portrait Gallery)
Daguerreotype portrait of Harriet Beecher Stowe, 1852
Harriet Beecher Stowe's grave
Cincinnati riots of 1836
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The Cincinnati riots of 1836 were caused by racial tensions at a time when African Americans, some of whom had escaped from slavery in the Southern United States, were competing with whites for jobs.
James G. Birney, abolitionist publisher whose press was twice destroyed during the riots.
Early portrait of Harriet Beecher Stowe, 1853
Salmon Portland Chase, later to become Chief Justice of the United States