Educator Resource Guide: Harriet Beecher Stowe and Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Essays/Reviews – to get you started Harriet Beecher Stowe Article – National Women’s History https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/harriet-beecher-stowe

Uncle Tom’s Cabin and the Matter of Influence - essay http://ap.gilderlehrman.org/essays/uncle-tom%C3%A2%E2%82%AC%E2%84%A2s-cabin-and-matter- influence?period=5

Annette Gordon-Reed, Review of Uncle Tom’s Cabin and David Reynolds’ Mightier Than the Sword, 2011 https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2011/06/13/the-persuader-annette-gordon-reed

Activities Watch the film clip: Analyze using the video analysis form (JH/HS or Elem.) from the National Archives PBS – American Experience, The Abolitionists https://cet.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/amex25.socst.ush.hbstowe/harriet-beecher-stowe-uncle- toms-cabin/#.Xot3achKhPY

Read the document(s): Analyze using written document analysis form (JH/HS or Elem.) from the National Archives Harriet’s letter to Gamaliel Bailey, editor of The National Era (Abolitionist newspaper), 1851 http://utc.iath.virginia.edu/uncletom/utlthbsht.html

Harriet’s letter to Frederick Douglass, 1851 https://www.harrietbeecherstowecenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Transcript-Stowes-Letter- to-Frederick-Douglass.pdf

Harriet Beecher Stowe sends a copy of Uncle Tom’s Cabin to Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, 1852 http://ap.gilderlehrman.org/resources/harriet-beecher-stowe-sends-uncle- tom%C3%A2%E2%82%AC%E2%84%A2s-cabin-quee

Lesson Plans Can Words Lead to War. Use all or parts of this Inquiry Based Lesson Plan https://www.tolerance.org/sites/default/files/2018-02/TT-Teaching-Hard-History-American-Slavery- IDM-Can-Words-Feb2018.pdf

Harriet Beecher Stowe – Author and Abolitionist. Includes links to many other related topics. https://cet.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/american-icons/harriet-beecher-stowe/

Harriet Beecher Stowe House, Cincinnati. 04/06/2020 stowehousecincy.org