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“I've heard 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' read, and I tell you Mrs. Stowe's pen hasn't begu…” — Harriet Tubman
I've heard 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' read, and I tell you Mrs. Stowe's pen hasn't begun to paint what slavery is as I have seen it at the far South. I've seen de real thing, and I don't want to see it on no stage or in no theater.
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