Harriet Beecher Stowe
1811–1896
Biography
Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811–1896) was an American writer who campaigned against slavery. She was born in Connecticut into the Beecher family, whose members were known as preachers and social reformers, and for most of her working life she wrote about the moral questions of her day, slavery above all. Her voice carried well beyond the United States.
Her best-known book, Uncle Tom's Cabin, appeared in 1852 after first running in instalments in an anti-slavery newspaper. It follows enslaved people and the families broken apart by the slave trade and the laws that protected it, and it made the cruelty of slavery vivid to a very large audience. Counting the stage adaptations, its readers ran into the millions. In the North the novel strengthened the anti-slavery cause, while in the South it drew bitter denunciation.
Stowe wrote more than thirty books in all, among them other novels, three travel memoirs and collections of essays and letters. This site lists Uncle Tom's Cabin under her name. It remains the book for which she is best remembered, and it shows how far a novel could shape a political argument in the years before the Civil War.
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Books
Uncle Tom's Cabin
by Harriet Beecher Stowe
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…
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