Lyman beecher biography of christopher columbus

Camp Meetings

Critics of the Second Great Awakening

Testimonies and Conversion Stories

Anti-Smoking Reform

Abolition

Children's Literature

Images

Pro-Abolition Voices

• Excerpt from Horrors of Slavery (book excerpt, )
• The Anti-Slavery Almanac (almanac, )
• Am I Not a Man and a Brother (artifact, c. )
• Antislavery Petition (document, c. )
• The Situation in Ohio (letter, )
• How to Agitate the Public Mind (almanac, )
• Dialogue on Slavery, A Play (book excerpt, )
• An Antislavery Convention and Fair (newspaper article, )
• Angelina Grimké Defends Abolitionism (letter, )
• Angelina Grimké's Mother Expresses Her Opinion (letter, )
• Prayer for the Slave (book excerpt, )
• Mary White, Diary Entries on Anti-Slavery Activities (journal entry, )
• The Boston Riot of (newspaper article, )

Anti-Abolition Voices

Songs

Moral Reform

• Appeal to women to take part in moral reform (pamphlet, )
• Every Youth's Gazette (children's literature, )
• Constitution of the Worcester Moral Re

  •

  
  (COLUMBUS, OH)–Ohio History Connection and Cincinnati’s Harriet Beecher Stowe House have received $, from the National Park Service to help preserve African American civil rights history. The National Park Service’s African American Civil Rights Grant Program has awarded $15,, million to 53 projects in 20 states to help preserve sites and history related to the African American struggle for equality.

  The Friends of Harriet Beecher Stowe House manages the Cincinnati home where Harriet Beecher Stowe’s family lived during the formative years that led her to write the best-selling novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin. The Stowe House is a part of the Ohio History Connection’s site system which includes 50+ historic sites around the state of Ohio.

  “We are thrilled to receive this grant from the National Park Service,” said Megan Wood, Director of Cultural Resources at Ohio History Connection. “These funds will support a larger project to

  •

  Harriet Beecher Stowe began writing Uncle Tom’s Cabin in By that time, she had already written several stories and published books. Writing was definitely not new to her. By the time Uncle Tom’s Cabin was published she had already published two other books, not counting the many articles she had already written for magazines and newspapers. I was interested in how Harriet learned to write a novel, let alone one as widely known as Uncle Tom’s Cabin, so I explored the basis for her writing career.
   
  Harriet was educated at her older sister Catharine’s school, the Hartford Female Seminary. The Hartford Seminary was a rarity at the time, as it educated women. While at the Hartford Seminary, she wrote long essays. Harriet even taught there after her education. When Harriet moved to Cincinnati in , she taught at Catharine’s new school, the Western Female Institute. There, she published her first book, which was a geography textbook. While th
•