"Uncle Tom's Cabin" by Harriet Beecher Stowe was published on March 20, 1852. It sold 10,000 copies in its first week. | American Experience | PBS

6.9K views · 93 reactions | "It was at his dying bed, and at his grave, that I learned what a poor slave mother may feel when her child is torn away from her." In the summer of 1849, Harriet Beecher Stowe's son Charley died from a cholera outbreak in Cincinnati. | American Experience | PBS | Facebook