10 YEAR SENTENCE FOR HAVING UNCLE TOM'S CABIN

A black preacher, Rev. Samuel Green, a Methodist from Dorchester County, Maryland, was convicted and sentenced to 10 years in prison in the 1850's for having in his mere possession a copy of UNCLE TOM's CABIN, an internationally renown, abolitionist, novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe! President Lincoln reportedly quipped upon meeting her, that she was the little lady, whose book had caused the Civil War. Reading anything was outlawed in Missouri in 1847 by blacks, as were black preachers! Read all good things! Contemporary Notice utc.iath.virginia.edu