c.1853 HARRIET BEECHER STOWE. Uncle Tom's Cabin Anti-Slavery Transferware Porcelain. Anglican small nick through at head

small nick through at head of front hinge

That we restrain ourselves

not to be very sensibly affected by what has the appearance of a new Era in your Life

5pp ALS dates to February of 1844 and is from Thomas McCrie [1797-1885] to Robert Shaw

The rage of battle is preferable to public degradation

c.1853 HARRIET BEECHER STOWE. Uncle Tom's Cabin Anti-Slavery Transferware Porcelain. Anglican small nick through at headA very fine c. 1853 transferware porcelain medallion depicting Harriet Beecher Stowe, surrounded by freed slaves with broken chains, grateful abolitionists, and bearing the text, "Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Author of Uncle Tom's Cabin." Items like this, or the similar stoneware decorative objects created to commemorate the death of Elijah P. Lovejoy, were an important part of the New England abolitionist's household, every day, visual reminders of