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Garrard County - Uncle Tom's Cabin

Marker # 1070 Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Harriet Beecher Stowe, the author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin, visited the Kennedy home (see below) while gathering some of the material for her book. The legendary cabin of Uncle Tom was behind this mansion, which was torn down in 1926. This book inflamed anti-slavery sentiments throughout the North and deep resentment in the South, with its publication in 1851.

General Thomas Kennedy fought in the American Revolutionary War and then moved to Kentucky in 1780. He was a member of the first Kentucky Constitution Convention; a member of the first KY Senate; member of commission which named Frankfort as capital. He was appointed as Brigadier General of Militia. He was a leader in forming Garrard County and its Representative for eight terms. At the time of his death in 1836, he owned a plantation of 7,000 acres and 200 slaves.

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