Harriet beecher stowe

Harriet Beecher Stowe, American writer and philanthropist, the author of the novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin, which contributed so much to popular feeling against slavery that it is cited among the causes of the American Civil War. Learn more about Stowe’s life and work.

In 1852, Beecher Stowe published Uncle Tom’s Cabin, a sentimental tale condemning the institution of slavery

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Harriet Beecher Stowe was a 19th century teacher, abolitionist and writer, best known for exposing the horrors of slavery in her seminal novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin.

You may know the story. President Lincoln, frustrated in his effort to end slavery while preserving the Union, ...

Abolitionist author, Harriet Beecher Stowe rose to fame in 1851 with the publication of her best-selling book, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, which highlighted the evils of slavery, angered the slaveholding South.

Her Stance on Abolition Was Not as Radical as We Think

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