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Friday, October 7, 2011
Eliza's Story
Ohio History
Eliza Doll
This is the legendary slave Eliza from Uncle Tom’s Cabin. She ran away to save her young son from being sold to a slave trader. As she waited here to cross the Ohio River, which was swirling with melting blocks of ice, she saw her master pursuing her. Eliza leaped from one treacherous ice floe to another, falling in several times but still clutching her son, and made it across to the Rankin house. Harriet Beecher Stowe used this story she heard from John Rankin in her book, Uncle Tom’s Cabin. This stirring novel exposed the cruelty of slavery previously unknown by many Northerners.
3 comments:
What an inspiring example of a mother's love.
Beautiful doll! Amazing that it happened right there in Ripley.
I think a lot of people say that book started the Civil War.
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