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Charles E. Stowe, Harriet Beecher Stowe compiled from her letters and journals by her son Charles Edward Stowe, Chapter 8: first trip to Europe, 1853. (search)
nterested in the case of the Edmondsons, a slave family of Washington, D. C. Emily and Mary two of the daughters of Paul (a free colored man) and Milly (a slave) Edmondson, had, for trying to escape from bondage, been sold to a trader for the New Orleans market. While they were lying in jail in Alexandria awaiting the making up ofwhile they remained in school, and until the death of one of them in 1853. Now during her visit to New York in the spring of 1852 she met their old mother, Milly Edmondson, who had come North in the hope of saving her two remaining slave children, a girl and a young man, from falling into the trader's clutches. Twelve hundred dklyn, and the ladies who took subscription papers at the meeting will undoubtedly raise two hundred dollars more. Before leaving New York, Mrs. Stowe gave Milly Edmondson her check for the entire sum necessary to purchase her own freedom and that of her children, and sent her home rejoicing. That this sum was made up to her by
Charles E. Stowe, Harriet Beecher Stowe compiled from her letters and journals by her son Charles Edward Stowe, Index. (search)
getting settled, 134; husband arrives, 138; birth of seventh child, 139; anti-slavery feeling aroused by letters from Boston, 145; Uncle Tom's Cabin, first thought of, 145; writings for papers, 147; Uncle Tom's Cabin appears as a serial, 156; in book form, 159; its wonderful success, 160; praise from Longfellow, Whittier, Garrison, Higginson, 161; letters from English nobility, 164, et seq.; writes Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin, 174, 188; visits Henry Ward in Brooklyn, 178; raises money to free Edmondson family, 181; home-making at Andover, 186; first trip to Europe, 189, 205; wonderful success of Uncle Tom's Cabin abroad, 189; her warm reception at Liverpool, 207; delight in Scotland, 209; public reception and teaparty at Glasgow, 212; warm welcome from Scotch people, 214; touched by the penny offering of the poor for the slaves, 219; Edinburgh soir4e, 219; meets English celebrities at Lord Mayor's dinner in London, 226; meets English nobility, 229; Stafford House, 232; breakfast at Lord