David Reynolds, Mightier than the Sword: Uncle Tom's Cabin and the Battle for America"

Join the Spirit of '76 Bookstore at the Salem Athenaeum for a lecture, Q&A, and book signing. Some consider Uncle Tom’s Cabin to be the most influential American novel ever written. In a fitting tribute to the 200th anniversary of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s birth, Bancroft Prize-winning historian David S. Reynolds reveals her book’s impact not only on the abolitionist movement and the American Civil War, but also on worldwide events, including the end of serfdom in Russia.