Johnston, Johanna, Harriet and the Runaway Book : The Story of Harriet Beecher Stowe and Uncle Tom's Cabin.
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
awful slavery was. Because of the encouragement of 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......
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