Stowe, Harriet Beecher

A nineteenth-century American author best known for Uncle Tom's Cabin, a powerful novel that inflamed sentiment against slavery.

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Notes

During the Civil War , Abraham Lincoln met Mrs. Stowe and is reputed to have said to her, “So you are the little woman who wrote the book that made this big war.”

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Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 10, 280, 336.

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Stowe, Harriet Beecher: Uncle Tom’s Cabin, an interesting story, but like most books written for partisan purposes, its influence is not now wholesome.

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Stowe, Harriet Beecher, publishes "Uncle Tom's Cabin," 97; her views of slavery as pictured therein, 109; publishes "Dred," 123.

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Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 31-32, 50, 254, 262.

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Stowe, Harriet Beecher, twin daughter of H. B. S. Stowe, Henry Ellis, first son of H. B. S.; goes to Europe; returns to enter Dartmouth; death of; his character; his portrait; mourning for.

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