Uncle Tom's Cabin

So you're the little woman who wrote the book that started this Great War!
Abraham Lincoln (Allegedly upon meeting Harriet Beecher Stowe)

About the Author

Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896) was a white, woman, born in Litchfield, Connecticut. Her father was a Congressional preacher who encouraged intellectual debates among his children and also gave anti-slavery sermons. Harriet Beecher Stowe would go on to become a teacher and have small pieces published in local magazines before writing Uncle Tom’s Cabin. She was motivated to write Uncle Tom’s Cabin by the passage of the Fugitive Slave Act in 1950. Uncle Tom’s Cabin was first published in serial form in the abolitionist newspaper, The National Era, and in 1852 was published as a two volume novel. The book sold 10,000 copies in the first week, became the most popular novel of its era, and translated into over 60 languages. In addition to Uncle Tom’s Cabin, which was by far her most famous work, Beecher Stowe also wrote poetry, essays, and a variety of non-fiction books. She died in Andover, Massachusetts, in 1896.