is here, was an enslaved person in maryland who found his way, escaped through to canada to dresden, ontario, informed the settlement. there's a museum of their today in his honor. in his narrative really speaks to, of course as they all do, struggle to make a decision to change your life and to get through to freedom. so harriet beecher stowe's story "uncle tom's cabin" was published as a serial in "the national era," and it took over almost quite figured you would've published the, much longer than she expected. she missed two deadlines, t. weekly deadlines. those stories that subscribes to the newspaper were up in arms because they really wanted to the next installment. it was that popular. it was so popular that by march of 1852, three months before the end, stowe decided to contract with a publisher, a book publisher to publish it as a book. it was finally published as a two volume book, senior, march 20, 1852. very simple. these two are clothbound, examples. published by john p. jewett out of boston. the publisher also cratered a shorter version for children called pictures and stories