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Harriet Beecher Stowe is an abolitionist as well as a famous author during the civil war. One of her book,”The Uncle Tom’s Cabin” got extremely famous for writing about slavery and it showed how slavery are treated, which made this person interesting. I am curious about her background and her personality.

My historical question is “What impact did Uncle Tom’s Cabin bring to the society?”

Primary Sources Quotes: • The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today. • If women want any rights they had better take them, and say nothing about it • Women are the real architects of society.

//“Who so low, who so poor, who so despised as the American slave?”// Primary image [|200px-Beecher-Stowe.jpg]

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====Document- In 1850, Calvin Stowe accepted a position at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine. While in Maine Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote //Uncle Tom's Cabin//. The Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 inspired her to write the novel. She objected to the federal government actively assisting slave owners in their efforts to reclaim their runaway slaves in Northern states. Like William Lloyd Garrison, Stowe realized that most Northerners had never witnessed slavery firsthand. Most Northern people had no idea how brutal slavery could be. Through //Uncle Tom's Cabin//, Stowe sought to humanize slavery. She wanted to educate them about the brutalities of the institution. She hoped that her readers would rise up against slavery if they understood the beatings, the brutality, and the division of families that sometimes occurred. ==== Because //Uncle Tom's Cabin// was a work of fiction, Stowe was criticized for her supposedly inaccurate portrayal of slavery. Stowe's novel was based on extensive research with former slaves and with active participants, both whites and blacks, with the Underground Railroad. Despite the criticism, the book became a bestseller. An abolitionist newspaper, //The National Era//, originally published the book as a serial in 1851 and 1852. In 1852, the story was published in book form and sold more than 500,000 copies in its first five years in print. It brought slavery to life for many people. The book did not make these people into devoted abolitionists, but //Uncle Tom's Cabin// did cause more and more Northerners to consider ending the institution of slavery. In 1862, Stowe met President Abraham Lincoln while she was visiting Washington, DC. Lincoln reportedly said, "So you're the little woman who wrote the book that started this Great War!"

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