jan 1, 1852 - Uncle Tom's Cabin

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Harriet Beecher Stowe

-personal situations (whippings, SA, family separation, white religious guilt)
-sold many in U.S. and twice the num in Britain
-soon there was a theatrical version (drew on minstrel show ideas)

Effects: southern whites challenged Stowe, so she released a Key to Uncle tom's Cabin with all her sources and evidence.

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