HARRIET BEECHER STOWE (1811-1896) was a novelist, essayist, and short-story writer best known for her first novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin. ROBERT S. LEVINE is professor of English at the University of Maryland, College Park. He is author or editor of several books, including Martin Delany, Frederick Douglass, and the Politics of Representative Identity and Martin R. Delany: A Documentary Reader, both from the University of North Carolina Press.

HARRIET BEECHER STOWE (1811-1896) was a novelist, essayist, and short-story writer best known for her first novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin. ROBERT S. LEVINE is professor of English at the University of Maryland, College Park. He is author or editor of several books, including Martin Delany, Frederick Douglass, and the Politics of Representative Identity and Martin R. Delany: A Documentary Reader, both from the University of North Carolina Press.

HARRIET BEECHER STOWE (1811-1896) was a novelist, essayist, and short-story writer best known for her first novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin. ROBERT S. LEVINE is professor of English at the University of Maryland, College Park. He is author or editor of several books, including Martin Delany, Frederick Douglass, and the Politics of Representative Identity and Martin R. Delany: A Documentary Reader, both from the University of North Carolina Press.