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With the publication of the novel Uncle Tom s Cabin in 1952, Harriet Beecher Stowe became the most famous writer in America. That book helped to fuel the raging debate over slavery in the United States. When Stowe met President Abraham Lincoln in 1862, he reportedly said, "So you are the little woman who started this great war." Often overlooked is the fact that Harriet Beecher Stowe was also one of the first and greatest proponents of Florida as a popular tourist destination. In 1873, some of Stowe s descriptive and colorful tourist articles were published in the book Palmetto Leaves. This book, Calling Yankees to Florida: Harriet Beecher Stowe s Forgotten Tourist Articles, contains fascinating vignettes of Florida life not included in Palmetto Leaves, with insightful commentary by John Foster Jr. and Sarah Whitmer Foster.

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John and Sarah Foster's Calling Yankees to Florida creatively permits us a fascinating glimpse of modern Florida's birth through the eyes and words of the renowned Harriet Beecher Stowe. In compiling what amounts to a sequel to Stowe's now-classic Palmetto Leaves, the Fosters present us with a truly meaningful sense of why and how Florida was to develop in the manner it did in the late nineteenth century as old collided with new and human-imposed demands upon fragile ecological underpinnings led, among other things, to destructive legacies and environmental advocacy. --Dr. Canter Brown Jr.
Fort Valley State University

John T. and Sarah Whitmer Foster have provided a great service by making available these selections by Harriet Beecher Stowe. The Stowe selections reveal the 'genius' of the writer, her love of Florida, her contributions to early tourism, and they celebrate the pristine beauty of the region when it was her winter home. --Dr. Carolyn Williams
University of North Florida

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