In this drawing from 'Uncle Tom's Cabin,' a Black child is taken from his mother by a white man. Culture Club/Getty Images In or around 1825, John Andrew Jackson was born enslaved on a plantation in ...

SMYTH COUNTY, Va. (WCYB) — Mike Sage, the pastor at Freedom Tabernacle Baptist Church in Atkins, Virginia, said he read "Uncle Tom's Cabin" and decided he wanted to share the story with others. “I did ...

The bestselling novel of the 19th century, and the second bestselling book of that century (after the Bible), Uncle Tom’s Cabin first appeared in the United States in 1851 as a serialized work of ...

Go behind the scenes in the conservation lab as a conservator uncovers the hidden story of a series of painted panels Stephanie Guidera During my time at the museum’s object conservation lab, I ...

In Waukegan, Ill. last week, a stage show started on its rounds billed as Uncle Tom’s Cabin in Swing. The swing was all there, in a noisy, nickel-in-the-slot sort of way; but Uncle Tom’s Cabin was not ...

As a preteen growing up on the Mason-Dixon line in southeastern Kentucky, I grew up reading the abridged version of “Uncle Tom’s Cabin.” Sadly, that abridged version never baptized me or many other ...

The home and log kitchen that once belonged to the Riley Plantation are being converted into a museum in Montgomery County, Maryland. Today, the land is known as Josiah Henson Park, named for the ...

Little is known about precisely why sculptor Lot Torelli (1835–1896), based in Florence, Italy, decided to carve two high-relief marble panels depicting scenes from American author Harriet Beecher ...