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Harriett Beecher Stowe’s “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” begins its ten-​month serialization in the National Era, an abolitionist publication, on this date in 1851.

Also on June 5, Scottish economist and philosopher Adam Smith is born (1723); British economist John Maynard Kenes was also born on this date (1883), June 5 deaths include American authors Stephen Crane (1900), author of “The Red Badge of Courage,” and O. Henry, America’s most influential short story writer, ten years later.

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