Harriet Beecher Stowe and Harriet Jacobs collide in new play 'The Storehouse' at Perisphere Theatre
Harriet Beecher Stowe coined the phrase “Uncle Tom” in her fictional novel “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” (1852), while Harriet Jacobs chronicled her own escape from slavery in “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl” (1861).
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