![]() ![]() Over the course of her long career she wrote over thirty books and essays, poems and articles. When President Abraham Lincolm met her he is reported to have described her as ‘the little woman who wrote the book that started this Great War’. It was hugely influential in the abolition debate, and catapulted Stowe into the spotlight. ![]() It was an immediate bestseller, selling ten thousand copies in its first week of publication and going on to become the second biggest bestseller of the nineteenth century after the Bible. 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, and inspired pro-slavery copy-cat works in defense of the institution of slavery. In 1850 the Fugitive Slave Law was passed, punishing anyone who offered runaway slaves food or shelter – she drew on her anger from this to write UNCLE TOM’S CABIN, which first appeared in an abolitionist newspaper and was then published in book form. She moved to Ohio in 1832 and was introduced to the slavery debates, marrying the professor and staunch abolitionist Calvin Stowe with whom she had seven children. The cabin of Uncle Tom was a small log building, close adjoining to the house, as the negro par excellence designates his master’s dwelling. Harriet Beecher Stowe was born in 1811, one of ten children of famous minister Lyman Beecher. ![]()
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