Harriet Beecher Stowe American writer and editor
Harriet Beecher Stowe , ( born June 14th, 1811 , Litchfield Connecticut , U.S.-died July 1 , 1896 , Hartford, Connecticut ) , American writer and philanthropist , the author of the book Uncle Tom’s Cabin , which contributed to an effort to stop slavery which is said to be a major cause of the American Civil War. Harriet was a member of the 19th century’s most remarkable families. The daughter of the prominent Cnogregationalist minister Lymann Beecher and the sister of Catharine , Henry Ward , and Edward , she grew up in an environment of education and moral. She along with her sister Catharine attended in the same school in Hartford , Conneticut , in 1824-27 , thereafter teaching
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Whilst in Cincinnati she took an active part in the literary and school life , contributing stories and sketches to local journals and compiling a school geography , until the school closed in 1836. That same year she married a man by the name of Calvin Ellis Stowe , a clergyman and seminary professor , who encouraged her literary skills and was himself an eminent biblical scholar. Stowe lived for 18 years in Cincinnati, separated only by the Ohio River from a slave-holding community; she came in contact with fugitive slaves and learned about life in the South from friends and from her own visits there. In 1850 her husband became professor at Bowdoin College and the family moved to Brunswick , Maine. There Harriet Stowe began to write a long tale of slavery , based on her reading of abolitionist literature and on her personal observations in Ohio and Kentucky. Her tale was published serially (1851-52 ) in the National Era, an antislavery paper of Washington , D.C.; in 1852 it appeared in book for as Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or , Life Among the Lowly. The book started to become more popular and was taken up eagerly by abolitionist while , along with its author , it was heavily disliked in the South , were