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Years Image Event Description Keywords
1776   Samuel Hopkins, A Dialogue Concerning the Slavery of the Africans An abolitionist argument ddressed to the continental congress. abolition, Stowe
1851   Harriet Beecher Stowe, "Uncle Tom's Cabin"   slavery, abolition
1859   Harriet Beecher Stowe, The Minister's Wooing Stowe's hero was a Newport, Rhode Island minister named Samuel Hopkins. Stowe, abolition, slavery
1863   Emancipation Proclamation frees slaves in rebellious states In a response to an editorial in the New york Tribune, Lincoln had earlier insisted that he would free the slaves only to save the Union. Harriet Beecher Stowe responded in another publication that he should save the Union only to free the slaves. slavery
1869   Harriet Beecher Stowe, "Old-Town Folks"    

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