‘Sorrows of injustice’

Harriet Beecher Stowe House, in Brunswick, Maine, where, between 1850 and 1852, Stowe wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin. Her husband taught at Bowdoin College in the town.

“I wrote what I did because as a woman, as a mother, I was oppressed and broken-hearted with the sorrows of injustice I saw.’’

Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896), New England writer and abolitionist, on her momentous 1862 book Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Cruel slaveowner Simon Legree assaults Uncle Tom in the novel.