Harriet beecher stowe

Harriet Beecher Stowe, American writer and philanthropist, the author of the novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin, which contributed so much to popular feeling against slavery that it is cited among the causes of the American Civil War. Learn more about Stowe’s life and work.

Harriet Beecher Stowe was a 19th century teacher, abolitionist and writer, best known for exposing the horrors of slavery in her seminal novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin.

Over the past several decades, few fields of American history have grown as dramatically as women’s history. Today, courses in women’s history are standard in most colleges and universities, and historians regularly produce scholarship on women and gender. In 1981, historian Gerda Lerner provocatively challenged, “always ask what did the women do while the men were doing what the textbook tells us was important."

Abolitionist author, Harriet Beecher Stowe rose to fame in 1851 with the publication of her best-selling book, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, which highlighted the evils of slavery, angered the slaveholding South.

"Uncle Tom's Cabin', written by Harriet Beecher Stowe. Published in 1852., it changed the way Americans viewed slavery, a system that treated people as property. First week after publication sold 10,000 copies, first year sold 30,000 copies and sold 1.5 million copies in one year in Great Britain.

Amazon.com: Uncle Tom's Cabin: With Original 1852 Illustrations by Hammett Billings: 9781645940074: Stowe, Harriet Beecher, Billings, Hammatt: Books

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