Harriet Beecher Stowe was a high
class women, reformer, and writer in the 1800's. She
wrote many anti-slavery documents that helped reform
society. You may know her as the writer of Uncle Tom's
Cabin, the best-selling book in the 1800's about how bad
slavery was. Because of the encouragement if her husband,
Calvin E. Stowe, she became one of the most famous
writers, reformers, and abolitionist women of the 1800's.
Harriet Elizabeth Beecher Stowe was born on June 14,
1811, in Linchfeild, Connecticut. Her father, Reverend
Lyman Beecher, raised her in a strong, religious, abolitionist
environment. She was also very well educated. In 1832,
she moved to Cincinnati with her father. There she learned
about slavery that was taking place in the state underneath
her. In 1836, she married Calvin E. Stowe, a collage
professor who encouraged her writing, that was soon to
make her one of the famous women in American history. A
few years later she moved to Maine because her......
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