*Other black activists were less favorable toward Stowe’s novel, objecting in particular to the characterization of George Harris, Eliza’s husband, who, having escaped with his family to Canada and then to France, concludes the novel by moving with his family to Liberia. Even though blacks ought to be allowed to stay and “mingle” in the United States, Harris feels he must have “a country, a nation, of my own” (Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly [1852], ed. Kenneth S. Lynn [Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1962], 446). One black journalist wrote that Stowe’s choice to send the novel’s most spirited and daring black man to Africa meant that she believed that blacks, slave or free, cannot “live on the American continent. Death or banishment is our doom, say the Slaveocrats, the Colonizationists, and . . . Mrs. Stowe!!” The Connecticut minister Leonard Bacon claimed that he had heard Stowe say that if she were to write the novel again, “she would not send George Harris to Liberia.” See Benjamin Quarles, Black Abolitionists (New York: Oxford University Press, 1969), 220–21.