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Stowe, Harriet Beecher

  1. A nineteenth-century American author best known for , 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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