| Harriet Beecher Stowe - Women authors, American - 1889 - 612 pages
...caused by the enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Law. I remember distinctly saying in one of them, ' Now, Hattie, if I could use a pen as you can, I would...would make this whole nation feel what an accursed tlling slavery is.' . . . When we lived in Boston your mother often visited us. ... Several numbers... | |
| Emma Raymond Pitman - Hymn writers - 1892 - 390 pages
...profoundly stirred all the hearts that felt for the slave ; and Mrs. Stowe's brother Edward wrote to her : " Now, Hattie, if I could use a pen as you can, I would...whole nation feel what an accursed thing slavery is." She took his advice, and wrote the tale as a serial for the National Era at Washington, taking about... | |
| 1911 - 924 pages
...enforcement of the Fugitive-Slave Law. I remember distinctly saying in one of them: 'Now, Hattie, if 1 could use a pen as you can, I would write something...whole nation feel what an accursed thing slavery is!'" "God Helping Me, 1 Will Write!" A daughter of Mrs. Stowe well remembered her whole life long the scene... | |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe - 1895 - 528 pages
...received. Mrs. Stowe herself read it aloud to the assembled family, and when she came to the passage : ' I would write something that would make this whole nation feel what an accursed thing slavery is,' Mrs. Stowe rose from her chair, crushing the letter in her hand, and with an expression on her face... | |
| Hamilton Wright Mabie - United States - 1896 - 750 pages
...caused by the enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Law. I remember distinctly saying in one of them, ' Now, Hattie, if I could use a pen as you can, I would...whole nation feel what an accursed thing slavery is." " When we lived in Boston your mother often visited us. ... Several numbers of ' Uncle Tom's Cabin... | |
| United States - 1896 - 752 pages
...caused by the enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Law. I remember distinctly saying in one of them, ' Now, Hattie, if I could use a pen as you can, I would...whole nation feel what an accursed thing slavery is.' " When we lived in Boston your mother often visited us. ... Several numbers of ' Uncle Tom's Cabin... | |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe - 1896 - 518 pages
...such an appeal came in a letter from a sister-in-law. " If I could use a pen as you can," she wrote, " I would write something that would make this whole nation feel what an accursed thing slavery is." " A member of Mrs. Stowe's family well remembers the scene in the little parlor in Brunswick when the... | |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe - Authors, American - 1897 - 428 pages
...received. Mrs. Stowe herself read it aloud to the assembled family, and when she came to the passage, "I would write something that would make this whole nation feel what an accursed thing slavery is," Mrs. Stowe rose up from her chair, crushing the letter in her hand, and with an expression on her face... | |
| Annie Fields - Abolitionists - 1897 - 416 pages
...on their way to Canada. After Mrs. Stowe reached Brunswick Mrs. Edward Beecher wrote to her sister: "Hattie, if I could use a pen as you can, I . , would write something to make this whole nation feel what an accursed thing slavery is." One of Mrs. Stowe 's children remembers... | |
| Ella Reeve Ware - Authors - 1899 - 244 pages
...every man, woman and child in the United States should be free. Her sister wrote to her from Boston: "Now, Hattie, if I could use a pen as you can, I would...whole nation feel what an accursed thing slavery is." When Mrs. Stowe read this, she rose from her chair, saying: "I will write something. I will, if I live."... | |
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