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Harriet Elisabeth Beecher Stowe (/ stoʊ /; June 14, 1811 – July 1, 1896) was an American author and abolitionist. She came from the religious Beecher family and wrote the popular novel Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852), which depicts the harsh conditions experienced by enslaved African Americans.
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.
Aug 5, 2024 · Professor reveals the life of the ‘Plausible Man’ from South Carolina who inspired ‘Uncle Tom’s Cabin’. Five weeks before she began writing the book that helped outlaw modern slavery in America, Harriet Beecher Stowe met a South Carolina man on the run.
Nov 12, 2009 · 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.
STOWE, Harriet (Elizabeth) Beecher. Born 14 June 1811, Litchfield, Connecticut; died 1 July 1896, Hartford, Connecticut. Wrote under Christopher Crowfield. Daughter of Lyman and Roxana Foote Beecher; married Calvin E. Stowe, 1836; children: Eliza, Isabella, Henry, Frederick, Georgiana, Samuel, Charles. Harriet Beecher Stowe was born on 14 June ...
Sep 30, 2024 · 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.
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A fellowship from the Rockefeller Foundation provided a crucial year in which I began inching my way through the mountain of archival material left behind by the Beechers, who knew they were famous and saved abundant documentation of their strenuous efforts to reform the world through Beecherism.
