Abraham Lincoln was quoted as saying - upon meeting Harriet Beecher Stowe - "So you're the little woman who wrote the book that started this great war."
Now her book is back in the news due to, of all things, a real estate property listing:
WASHINGTON -- ''Uncle Tom's Cabin" summons visions of racial brutality in another place and time. But Uncle Tom's Cabin stands today in Rockville, Md., shaded by a row of trees from the speedway that is Old Georgetown Road.
And the property is for sale.
Its owner, Hildegarde Mallet-Prevost, died in September at age 100, and her family is selling the three-bedroom Colonial with the attached log cabin that was once home to Josiah Henson -- the slave whose 1849 autobiography was the model for Harriet Beecher Stowe's classic novel, ''Uncle Tom's Cabin."
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Washington Post