c.1853 HARRIET BEECHER STOWE. Uncle Tom's Cabin Anti-Slavery Transferware Porcelain. Anglican The Lame Chicken

The Lame Chicken

especially at first leaf or the table of contents

just 8 months earlier

small nick through at head of front hinge

c.1853 HARRIET BEECHER STOWE. Uncle Tom's Cabin Anti-Slavery Transferware Porcelain. Anglican The Lame ChickenA 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