Harriet Beecher Stowe

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When you get into a tight place, and everything goes against you till it seems as if you couldn't hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that's just the place and time that the tide'll turn.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

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Topic

Never giving up Perseverance

Speaker

Mr. Avery

Author

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Source

Oldtown Folks

Medium

Novel

Statement Type

Advice

Language

English

Time

1869 1860s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Stowe, Harriet Beecher. Oldtown Folks. Boston: Fields, Osgood, and Co., 1869, ch. 39.

Current Citation

Stowe, Harriet Beecher. "Oldtown Folks." Harriet Beecher Stowe: Three Novels: Uncle Tom's Cabin; The Minister's Wooing; Oldtown Folks. Library of America, 1982, ch. 39.

All places where women are excluded tend downward to barbarism; but the moment she is introduced, there come in with her courtesy, cleanliness, sobriety, and order.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Woman's Sphere

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Topic

Women and society Civilization Women

Speaker

Bob Stephens' Wife

Author

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Source

Woman's Sphere

Language

English

Time

1868 1860s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Stowe, Harriet Beecher. "Woman's Sphere." The Chimney-Corner. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1868.

My soul an't yours, Mas'r! You haven't bought it, -ye can't buy it! It's been bought and paid for, by one that is able to keep it.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Uncle Tom's Cabin

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Topic

The soul

Speaker

Uncle Tom

Author

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Source

Uncle Tom's Cabin

Language

English

Time

1852 1850s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Stowe, Harriet Beecher. "Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly." The National Era, 5 June 1851 - 1 Apr. 1852.

Current Citation

Stowe, Harriet Beecher. Uncle Tom's Cabin, edited by Elizabeth Ammons. W. W. Norton & Company, 2017, ch. 33.