Shortly after Harriet Beecher Stowe published “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” or “Life Among the Lowly,” F.W. Thomas, the editor of a German newspaper in Philadelphia, began translating the work and publishing it in installments - without paying the requisite royalties. Stowe and her husband sued in the Federal court in Philadelphia, and Mrs. Stowe submitted a deposition describing her authorship, filed on March 11, 1853. Deposition of Harriet Beecher Stowe, 1853
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Shortly after Harriet Beecher Stowe published “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” or “Life Among the Lowly,” F.W. Thomas, the editor of a German newspaper in Philadelphia, began translating the work and publishing it in installments - without paying the requisite royalties. Stowe and her husband sued in the Federal court in Philadelphia, and Mrs. Stowe submitted a deposition describing her authorship, filed on March 11, 1853.

Deposition of Harriet Beecher Stowe, 1853

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