It’s a shameful, wicked, abominable law, and I’ll break it, for one, the first time I get a chance.
Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852)
This week I want to discuss Uncle Tom’s Cabin, by Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896) an unlikely catalyst for two big pivots in my career. The first was my move away from researching daguerreotypes and Hawthorne (snooze!) to writing about daguerreotypes and abolition (yay!). I would never swap out my first love, early photography, but as a nineteenth-cen…
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