For Women’s History Month, we’ll turn to our favorite woman author, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and discuss her final anti-slavery novel, The Minister’s Wooing, published serially and in book form in 1859. Unlike Uncle Tom’s Cabin, this novel is set in the late 18th century in Newport, Rhode Island. Although this book covers plenty of other ground, it shows how deeply New England was involved in the early slave trade. We’ll discuss the chapters that deal directly with slavery.

Suggested reading: Harriet Beecher Stowe, The Minister’s Wooing (1859), Chapters VI, IX, X, and XI.