Northern Home and Cottage - February/March 2010

Northern Home & Cottage is an invaluable resource for entertaining, decorating and planning a home in the North—whether it’s a turn-of-the-century Victorian, a cabin in the woods or a state-of-the-art condo.

Uncle Tom's Cabin

When Abraham Lincoln met the writer Harriet Beecher Stowe after the start of the American Civil War, he reportedly said to her: 'So you're the little lady whose book started this big war'. Stowe's novel Uncle Tom's Cabin, published in 1852, is credited as fuelling the cause to abolish slavery in the northern half of the United States in direct response to its continuation in the South.