George Shelby (musician)
George Shelby may refer to: *George Shelby, character in '' Uncle Tom's Cabin'' * George Shelby (musician) on Santamental ''SantaMental'' is the fourth and the holiday studio album from Steve Lukather, released in 2003. History When Lukather's record company, Bop City Records, approached him about recording a Christmas album, he quipped, "Why me? Do I look like Fath ...

Uncle Tom's Cabin
''Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly'' is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. Published in two volumes in 1852, the novel had a profound effect on attitudes toward African Americans and slavery in the U.S., and is said to have "helped lay the groundwork for the mericanCivil War". Stowe, a Connecticut-born woman of English descent, was part of the religious Beecher family and an active abolitionist. She wrote the sentimental novel to depict the reality of slavery while also asserting that Christian love could overcome slavery. The novel focuses on the character of Uncle Tom, a long-suffering black slave around whom the stories of the other characters revolve. In the United States, ''Uncle Tom's Cabin'' was the best-selling novel and the second best-selling book of the 19th century, following the Bible. It is credited with helping fuel the abolitionist cause in the 1850s. The influence attributed to the book was so great that a likely ...
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George Shelby (musician)
George Shelby may refer to: *George Shelby, character in '' Uncle Tom's Cabin'' * George Shelby (musician) on Santamental ''SantaMental'' is the fourth and the holiday studio album from Steve Lukather, released in 2003. History When Lukather's record company, Bop City Records, approached him about recording a Christmas album, he quipped, "Why me? Do I look like Fath ...