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Glossary Term – Event
Harriet Beecher Stowe published Uncle Tom’s Cabin, which sold 300,000 copies in a year and a million copies in sixteen months. When Stowe met President Lincoln at the White House, he reportedly asked her: “Is this the little woman whose book made such a great war?”
Glossary Term – Person
Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811–1896) was an abolitionist writer and author of the 1852 novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Stowe was born into the prominent religious and intellectual Beecher family. She began her writing career in 1839 after marrying the Reverend Calvin Stowe in Cincinnati. The Stowes relocated to Maine for Calvin’s professorship at Bowdoin, and Harriet began writing her most famous work. Uncle Tom’s Cabin was published in March 1852 and achieved astounding success. The controversial book inspired many...
When Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin was published in 1852, it ignited a great debate over the practice of slavery in America. A best seller that sold more than one million copies, the novel tells the stories of Tom, a field slave, and Eliza, a household servant, and how they dealt with the horrors of slavery....
Although its implementation proceeded in fits and sstarts, abolitionism was an idea whose force ultimately proved unstoppable across the English-speaking world.
Women always played a significant role in the struggle against slavery and discrimination. White and black Quaker women and female slaves took a strong moral stand against slavery. As abolitionists, they circulated petitions, wrote letters and poems, and published articles in the leading anti-slavery periodicals such as the Liberator. Some of these women educated blacks, both free and enslaved, and some of them joined the American Anti-Slavery Society and founded their own biracial organization, the Philadelphia...