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Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896 [Quotation from Uncle Tom's Cabin on Christ]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC03969.02 Author/Creator: Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896 Place Written: s.l. Type: Autograph quotation signed Date: 4 October 1892 Pagination: 1 p. : Height: 6.6 cm, Width: 12.4 cm Order a Copy

"Not one throb of anguish, not one tear of the oppressed is forgotten by the man of sorrows, the Lord of Glory - In his patient generous bosom He bears the anguish of a world." Quoted from Chapter 12.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896

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