Okay, we have a way of processing stuff from the past that sometimes completely changes our outlook on it.

It happens when authors take on a controversial topic and then years later, folks think the story is outdated or even just plain wrong.

Mid-19th century author Harriet Beecher Stowe was dead set against slavery, and she wrote Uncle Tom's

cabin as a way to humanize enslaved people. Abolitionists loved the book. Folks in the South

who wanted to hang on to slavery hated it. I'm Patty Steele. So what was the later controversy about

her book? And also, what really weird thing happened to Harriet late in life?

That's next on the backstory.

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