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Over 41 issues, Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel
Uncle Tom s Cabin was published as a serial in the abolitionist newspaper
The National Era, beginning on June 5, 1851. At first, few readers followed the story, but its audience steadily grew as the drama unfolded.
“Wherever I went among the friends of the
Era, I found
Uncle Tom’s Cabin a theme for admiring remark,” journalist and social critic Grace Greenwood wrote in a travelogue published in the
Era. “[E]verywhere I went, I saw it read with pleasant smiles and irrepressible tears.’” The story was discussed in other abolitionist publications, such as Frederick Douglass’s newspaper
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in Connecticut, Virtual Lecture by Natalie Belanger Tuesday, March 9, 7:00 pm. Free
How did the women of Connecticut work for – or against – the right to vote?
Natalie Belanger looks at photos, letters, and pamphlets from Connecticut Historical Society s collection to understand one of the most hard-fought political battles of American history.
You ll learn about suffragists like Katharine Houghton Hepburn, Mary Townsend Seymour, and Isabella Beecher Hooker, as well as Connecticut women who fought tooth-and-nail against women getting the vote.
Natalie Belanger will present the program via Zoom.
Belanger is the Adult Programs Manager at the Connecticut Historical Society. She holds a B.A. in history from Smith College and an M.A. in women s history from the University of Maryland.
February 10, 2021
Born Victoria Claflin Woodhull on September 23, 1838, in the rural frontier town of Homer, Ohio, Victoria Woodhull was the seventh of ten children in a town with a population of 400. Her father was a schemer, a swindler, a snake oil salesman, so the family moved often to avoid him getting caught and slammed with criminal charges. The young Victoria was often shoeless and free range, running wild unattended; her neighbors described her as scrubby, dirty but smart as a whip.
Despite her chaotic upbringing and despite surviving physical abuse from her father, Victoria became prolific in taking care of herself and also learned how to tell the fortunes of people, maintaining that she and her sister Tennessee were protected and guided by spirits. Victoria became so good at mediumship (talking to the dead) that by age ten, she was the highest earner of her family, supporting them with her wages at a time in the life of America when women were expected to be homemakers, w
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