Harriet Beecher Stowe Slavery to Freedom Museum - Washington, KY
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silverquill
N 38° 36.876 W 083° 48.517
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Quick Description: While visiting this house in 1833, Harriet Beecher Stowe witnessed her first slave auction here in Washington, Kentucky, an experience which later led her to write "Uncle Tom's Cabin." This museum is a stop on the Underground Railroad tour.
Location: Kentucky, United States
Date Posted: 4/20/2008 5:29:23 PM
Waymark Code: WM3MFD
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Long Description:
Harriet Beecher Stowe - Slavery to Freedom Museum - 1807 - The
Colonel married Harriet Sellman in 1816, and here they raised six
children. In the summer of 1833 Harriet Beecher Stowe visited the
Marshall Key Home, as a guest of their daughter, Elizabeth, who was
one of her students at the Western Female Institute in Cincinnati.
While she was here she visited a slave auction on the Courthouse
lawn and from this experience later wrote "Uncle Tom's Cabin."
Today this is a museum on the Underground Railroad Tours.