Harriet Beecher Research Paper

Publisher Harriet Beecher was an American abolitionist and author. She wrote a novel based on the life that African Americans had under slavery. This novel reached millions as novel and as play, becoming influential in the United States and United Kingdom. She publish more than thirty books, she became known by her anti-slavery novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin. This novel recognized her in history and as well in her international celebrity. Harriet Beecher Stowe was born June 18, 1811, in Litchfield, C. She is the daughter of Rev. Lyman Beecher, and Roxanna Beecher; the sixth child out of 11 children. Her mother, Roxanna, died when she was only five years old. Her oldest sister Catherine became an important role mode to her. She was who took care

Her father became the President of Lane Teological Seminary, and from there she met and married her husband, Calvin Stowe. Calvin Stowe was a theology professor, whom she loved. She would always describe him as a rich guy in all races, but nothing else. He was rich in Greek and Hebrew, Latin and Arabic, and more, rich in nothing else. Harriet Stowe had seven children, and they were all born in Ohio as well, and in the summer of 1849. In the experience of the loss of her 18-month old son, Samuel Charles Stowe, to whom die of Cholera she experience the sorrow many faced in the 19th century. After the pain she felt by losing her son, she later credited that the crushing pain she felt was one of the inspiration for Uncle Tom’s Cabin. This novel helped her understand the pain that many enslaved mothers felt when their children’s were taken away from them to be sold to other people. This children may not of die, but the pain the mother felt was equally as if the child die, because more likely they knew they wouldn’t see them ever again. Even worst, this children were sold to be owned by other people, who would have them working and under

Small collections of all this stories had been publish as The Mayflower in 1843. When she first imagine writing about slavery in the early 1851, she wanted to write sketches about how slavery really was. She wanted to illustrate to people around the world the slavery that she, herself, and the rest of the people lived. People had hear of slavery, but they didn’t live it, or saw it as she had seen it, and the novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin explained a lot. She state: “I Wrote what I did because as a woman, as a mother, I was oppressed and broken-hearted with the sorrows and injustice I saw, because as a Christian I felt the dishonor to Christianity- because as a lover of my country, I trembled at the coming day of Wrath.”