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Article: THE REAL 'UNCLE TOM'S CABIN' IS UP FOR SALE.(News)
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- The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH)
- Article date:
- December 16, 2005
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Byline: Marc Fisher Washington Post
WASHINGTON -- "Uncle Tom's Cabin" -- with its roots deep in Cincinnati and Kentucky soil -- summons visions of racial brutality in another place and time.
But Uncle Tom's Cabin stands today in Rockville, Md., shaded by a row of trees from the speedway that is Old Georgetown Road.
And the property is for sale.
Its owner, Hildegarde Mallet-Prevost, died in September at 100, and her family is selling the three-bedroom colonial with the attached log cabin that was once home to Josiah Henson -- the slave whose 1849 autobiography was the model for Harriet Beecher Stowe's classic novel, "Uncle Tom's ...