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Harriet Beecher Stowe Thesis

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Harriet Beecher Stowe was an American author, and abolitionist born on June 14, 1811. She went to school at Pierce Academy, where she later taught. She moved in 1832 to Cincinnati with her family. During her time there she was deeply moved by the sight of slavery around the Ohio River in Kentucky and how it affected the interests of whites in Cincinnati. In 1850 when she moved to Maine, she wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin in response to the Fugitive Slave Act. This was her most celebrated work and the reason why she became widely known. The book Uncle Tom’s Cabin was about a slave who was supposedly beaten to death by their owner. The book created high tension between the North and the South. Her book sold out in the North, and acted as a propaganda
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