Uncle Tom's Granddaughter

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In 1883, Thomasina was given a leather-bound journal for her 10th birthday. For the next 80 years, she detailed within its pages the story of her life. When the journal was found decades after her death, her writings exposed a family secret that was never meant to be told. The story that unfolds reveals your past doesn’t dictate your future and that we are all more alike than we are different.

Harriet Beecher Stowe was an American journalist and fervent advocate for the abolishment of slavery. She wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin in 1852 to educate the non- slave-owning public on the horrors and injustices of human bondage. Less than a decade later, Americans were embroiled in the Civil War. In Uncle Tom’s Granddaughter, we are reintroduced to the man whose tragic story ignited a nation to end slavery once and for all.

About the author: Kaylon Bruner Tran, PhD, is a medical scientist turned novelist. After retiring from bench research in 2025, she began writing full-time. Long before her first novel was published in 2021, she read Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Ever since, she has been troubled by the way Tom is often depicted in today’s society. In Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Stowe’s character was a devout Christian who always put the needs of others above himself. In Uncle Tom’s Granddaughter, Kaylon puts a new spin on an old story to give readers an accurate glimpse into a painful chapter in America’s history.

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