A documentary about the little-known Josiah Henson, the escaped slave who inspired Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom's | dG1fNGtmZ3RiVnREVk0
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00:00Harriet Beecher Stowe's book was like the social media of her time.
00:04It was the television of her time.
00:07It was the great exposure of man's inhumanity to man.
00:11By the end of the century, it was the best-selling book in the world, aside from the Bible.
00:16When Stowe met the president, he supposedly said,
00:19So you're the little lady who wrote the book who started this great war.