Harriet Beecher Stowe publishes Uncle Tom’s Cabin, or Life Among the Lowly.  Depicting the very worst elements of chattel slavery in the united States, Stowe wrote the novel in reaction to the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850.

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Subsequent Events:

7/5/1852                   5/21/1856                  5/24/1854

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References:

Calvin D. Linton, ed. The Bicentennial Almanac: 200 Years of America, 1776-1976, (Nashville, Tennessee: Thomas Nelson, 1975), 141.

Current U.s. National Debt:

$36,161,621,015,445

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