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

From The Negro and the Nation A History of American Slavery and Enfranchisement by Merriam, George Spring

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.

From Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe Compiled From Her Letters and Journals by Her Son Charles Edward Stowe by Stowe, Harriet Beecher