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wrote to a man she had never met, Frederick Douglass
, for information about life on a southern cotton plantation to help her in writing her periodical serialization of Uncle Tom's Cabin.
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's vocation brought her into contact with many eminent people, from Abraham Lincoln
downwards. She shared a platform with Frederick Douglass
on a famous occasion when she challenged his faith by demanding whether God...
