. >> host: brenda stevenson,, what was the impact of harriet beecher stowe uncle tom's cabin? >> guest: harriet beecher stowe uncle tom's cabin was very impactful, very, very important. she really captured the brutality of the institution and in so captured the imagination of the world. that became the most important book of the 19th century. it was read more than any other book except for the bible. it was translated in so many different languages come even in chinese, and also, it was so popular that the press had to work literally 24 stomach to produce enough copies of it. it was really a big, big hit literary hit of the 19th century and, of course, some of the first movies that are produced in the early 20th century are based on "uncle tom's cabin." so even edison, edison as an early, thomas edison has an early movie, silent movie of "uncle tom's cabin." >> host: did it sell in the south? >> guest: it did sell in the south, although it was also banned in the south, too. and so there were people who wanted to read it. you had to read it to be able to protest it. but also the

. >> brenda stephenson what the impact of harriet beecher stow's uncle tom's cabin. >> guest: very impactful, very, very important. she really captured the brutality of the institution, and capture the imagination of the world. that became the most important book of the 19th century. it was read more than any other book except for the bible. translated in so many different languages, even in chinese. and it also -- it was so popular that the presses had to work literally 24/7 to produce enough copies. it was really the big, big hit, literary hit, of the 19th 19th century... ... also there were people who thought this is not the south and the south had its own propaganda machine going. there were advocates that were 1820s onward who were producing literary tracks and producing stories. about slavery, who was sleep seen as slavery which was something else positive and you were thinking about civilized people and we were symbolizing them, making them productive, teaching them christianity and teaching them to have skills and having them organize their family life. there were mistresses and they

recognize their worth and know how to preserve them for posterity -- the sister-in-law .f harriet beecher stowe a few letters from their correspondents have since been discovered. today, in the 21st entry, we have about 20 letters in the hands of wheatley who lives on in national memory and consciousness by word and by deed. if he wants the technology or ull of history, grade, and power cannot deny the .etermined little girl thank you. [applause] are there any questions you if there are, i invite you to come to the market phone -- the microphone. >> thank you, ms. lewis, for that really in normative presentation -- really informative presentation. i wondered if you could comment on how in the time phillis wheatley arrived in the americas, how unusual it was for clevelanders to teach their slaves to read and write and what motivated the wheatley's in particular to teach theirs. and how much did they call upon of intellectual community boston at that time. me how: ok, you asked many it was at that time. it certainly was not common. it was very uncommon. the reason they did was phillis 'own intell