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(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.) STOWE, HARRIET BEECHER.
Group of
four glazed Earthenware plates with engraved transfers of scenes from Harriet
Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin.
Each 7 inches, one 7
3
/
4
inches in diameter, scenes
bordered in a floral garland pattern; some general crackling and darkening to glazes, few
minor chips and early cracks.
Np, circa 1855-65
[1,000/1,500]
Scenes include: Poor Boy ‘They Have Sold You’ but Your Mother Will Save You Yet * Little Ava
Converting Topsy * Tom and Eva: Your Little Child is Your Only True Democrat * Eva Wreathing Tom.
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STOWE, HARRIET BEECHER.)
HENSON, JOSIAH.
Rev. Josiah Henson,
better known as Mrs. H. Beecher
Stowe’s “Uncle Tom.”
Carte-de-visite
photograph, on the original mount with
the elaborate red Bradshaw & Godart
stamp on the reverse.
London: Bradshaw & Godart, circa late
1860’s-1870’s
[600/900]
A fine example of a scarce image. Henson
(1789-1883), who was said to be the model
for Stowe’s “Uncle Tom,” was in fact anything
but the passive stereotype that Tom has come to
represent. He was an active abolitionist and lec-
tured both here and abroad. He wrote an
autobiography “Truth Stranger than Fiction.”