Harriet Beecher Stowe
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8 appearances
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1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 25 Jul
Harriet Beecher Stowe’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Up to this year, I have always felt that I had no particular call to meddle with this subject, and I dreaded to expose even my own mind to the full force of its exciting power.
But I feel now that the time has come when even a woman or a child who can speak a word for freedom and humanity is bound to speak.
I hope every woman who can write will not be silent.
I have been the mother of seven children, the most beautiful and most loved of whom lies buried near my Cincinnati residence.
It was at his dying bed and at his grave that I learned what a poor slave mother may feel when her child is torn away from her.
In those depths of sorrow, which seemed to be immeasurable, it was my only prayer to God that such anguish might not be suffered in vain.
I allude to this here because I have often felt that much that is in that book had its root in the awful scenes and bitter sorrow of that summer.
The book is a very inadequate representation of slavery, and it is so necessarily for this reason, that slavery in some of its workings is too dreadful for the purposes of art.
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