As part of Black History Month let us look at the term “Uncle Tom.” It is a slur used to disparage a Black person who is humiliatingly subservient or deferential to white people. Though they lived ...

That place is Uncle Tom’s Cabin, one of the most remote and historic bars in Northern California. Located at the edge of El Dorado County, deep in the wilderness, this off-the-grid retreat has been a ...

In December 1850, John Andrew Jackson — who had escaped a plantation in South Carolina and was living in Massachusetts — showed up at the Brunswick home that Harriet Beecher Stowe and her family were ...

In Uncle Tom's Cabin, Stowe made millions of Americans see slavery for the first time through the eyes of its victims.

Stunt was convicted at Southwark crown court of racially aggravated harassment last April, after repeatedly calling the PC an ...

In December 1850, John Andrew Jackson — who had escaped a plantation in South Carolina and was living in Massachusetts — showed up at the Brunswick home that Harriet Beecher Stowe and her family were ...

In 1853, Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of the anti-slavery novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin, wrote a letter to William Lloyd Garrison about their mutual friend, Frederick Douglass. Garrison and Douglass ...

During Stowe’s time in Brunswick, she wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin and sheltered John Andrew Jackson, a fugitive slave from South Carolina. Today, the building is owned by Bowdoin College and houses ...