Excerpt from Women Who Win: Or Making Things Happen Well, Tom's got the real article, if ever a fellow had, rejoined the other. I am sorry to part with Tom, I must say. You ought to let him cover the whole debt I owe you, and you would, Haley, if you had any conscience. The bargain was closed; the gift of prayer turned the scale, except, as Haley's estimate of prayer was not quite so high as Shelby's, a boy was thrown in with Tom. That Providence should lead a gifted writer to tell this story Of Uncle Tom so as to deal a crushing blow to American slavery, and at the same time make it the occasion of her distinguished literary career, was an experience which the author, Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe, never anticipated. But now we can see, looking back upon her early life, how she was disciplined to make so many and great things happen. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.