Beecher Stowe

The law leads to angry protests and inspires Harriet Beecher Stowe to write a serialized novel that will become Uncle Tom's Cabin.

The six female additions include suffragist Susan B. Anthony and novelist Harriet Beecher Stowe, as well as Civil War nurses and a temperance crusader.

Some pieces in the collection include an original page of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s “Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” a piece of critical flight data carried on the flight of Apollo 13 and sketches from the original creator of “Star Trek.”

Harriet Beecher Stowe’s “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” was based on her years in Cincinnati, on the banks of the river over whose ice floe Stowe’s fictional Eliza fled.

He had been born in the free state of Maine, and earlier in his career, he painted portraits of abolitionists Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Ralph Waldo Emerson, as well as a painting of Uncle Tom and Eva from Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel “Uncle Tom’s Cabin.”