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Portrayed by Kim Hanley from the American Historical Theater.
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February is Black History Month.
"Uncle Tom's Cabin" was first published on March 20, 1852, one hundred and seventy years ago.
In 1852, Harriet Beecher Stowe (June 14, 1811 – July 1, 1896) published her novel "Uncle Tom’s Cabin", or "Life Among the Lowly." This empathetic depiction of life for African Americans under slavery reached millions in the United States and the United Kingdom. The emotionally charged stories of Uncle Tom, Eliza, and Little Eva helped move the conscience of the country to the great and imperative cause of Abolitionism. It energized anti-slavery forces in the American North, while provoking widespread anger in the pro-slavery South. It is alleged that when she met Abraham Lincoln, he told her “So you are the little woman that wrote the book that started this great war.”
Constrained by 19th century societal conventions, Harriet could not become a minister like her father, brothers and husband, so she chose instead to use the outlets available to a lady, among those were teaching and writing. During the early years of her marriage, Harriet drew income as an educator and from writing from magazine articles. Later, after witnessing the horrors of slavery and the work of abolitionists, she began "Uncle Tom’s Cabin" as a story to be published in serial form. The stories catapulted her to international fame, and in the years following, Harriet went on to publish over twenty novels as well as travel memoirs, home-life guides, letters and essays, becoming one of the most widely published authors in American History.
Reenactor: Kim Hanley
Kim’s academic training includes a BFA in Restoration and History of Applied Arts from the Fashion Institute of Technology, State University of New York. She is an actor, singer, costumer and dancer who trained and performed from an early age with the School of American Ballet and the Eglevsky Ballet in New York, as well as with the visiting Bolshoi Ballet, Stuttgart Ballet. Ms. Hanley is also an accomplished costumer whose specialty is historical fashion. She has costumed for Many of the Nation’s top historical Interpreters and historical sites such as George Washington’s Mount Vernon. On a lighter note, she includes among her “bigger” clients, The Philly Phanatic.
Kim began interpreting Abigail Adams with AHT in 1997. Ms. Hanley has appeared in venues that include the White House Visitors Center, National Archives in Washington DC and NYC, National Portrait Gallery, Fraunces Tavern Museum at Trinity Church in NYC, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Franklin Institute, National Constitution Center, Independence Visitors Center, Museum of the American Revolution, Freedoms Foundation at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania Historical Society, Durham Museum, Mount Rushmore, Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace, Delaware Humanities Forum Chautauqua, and many other historical and educational institutions throughout New Jersey and the Greater Philadelphia area. In addition to Harriet Beecher Stowe, Kim’s character portrayals include: Abigail Adams, Annie Oakley, Lucretia Mott, Mary Young Pickersgill, Betsy Ross, Molly Pitcher, Allice Roosevelt Longworth, Alice Roosevelt’s maid Anna, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, and Grace Coolidge.
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