Uncle Tom’s Cabin Historic Site in Dresden, Ont. reopens for 2022 season
was published.
The book, written by a white woman named Harriet Beecher Stowe, told the story of what life was like on a plantation in the southern U.S.It was a bestseller and sold over a million copies in the first year, but faced controversy.“People, especially the southern slave owners, said, ‘What does this white woman about slavery? Her book is just a fantastical tale that she’s made up in her mind,'” Cook explained.
Each August Civic Holiday weekend, the site hosts Emancipation Day with speakers, performers, exhibits and cuisine reflecting early Black life in Ontario.The site consists of the Josiah Henson Interpretive Centre, with its Underground Railroad Freedom Gallery and North Star Theatre, plus three historical buildings, including the Josiah Henson house, two cemeteries, a sawmill and numerous artifacts.
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