Stowe, Harriet Beecher

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

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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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