Outline, Week 2
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read the first version of UTC as produced in 1852 in Troy New York. The
text of the play is available on the web and is taken from "George
L. Aiken's Dramatization of Uncle Tom's Cabin" reprinted in Montrose
J. Moses, Representative Plays by American Dramatists from 1765 to the
Presnt Day. New York: E. P. Dutton & Company, 1925, pp. 605-693.
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helpful facts about the United States and HBS ca. 1852:
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2 million square miles with the annexation of Texas in 1845
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23 million people
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3 million African Americans of whom 6 out of 7 were slaves who lived principally
below the Mason Dixon line
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Cinncinnati had a population of 115,000; Baltimore, 169,000; Chicago, 30,000;
New Orleans, 134,000; New York, 515,000; Philadelphia, 408,000; Boston,
139,000;
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Harriet Beecher Stowe moved to Cincinnati, Ohio in 1832, at the age of
21; marries Calvin Stowe in 1836; returns to the East in 1846;
UTC published in 1852.
©Dr. Edward
C. Papenfuse (instructor)
State Archivist and Commissioner of Land Patents
Office Hours by appointment
Phone: (o) 410-260-6401; (h) 410-467-6137
Internet Address: http://www.edpapenfuse.com