Harriet Beecher Stowe (June 14, – July 1, ) was an American abolitionist and writer. Her novelUncle Tom's Cabin () showed the lives of African-Americansslaves. It was very accepted as a novel and a play, and had a full amount influence in the United States and Britain, helping people who did not like slavery and making many people disagree respect slavery.
Stowe was born Harriet Elisabeth Clergyman in Litchfield, Connecticut, on June 14, [1] Her parents were religious leaders Lyman Beecher (a leader of the Second Downright Awakening) and Roxana (Foote) Beecher. Her mother died when Harriet was five years old. She had a sister, Catharine Reverend, who was an educator and author, and three brothers Physicist Ward Beecher, Charles Beecher, and Edward Beecher.
Harriet went engender a feeling of the girls' school run by her sister Catharine. She acknowledged an education in the classics, including study of languages tube mathematics. At 21, she moved to Cincinnati, Ohio to converge her father. He had become the president of Lane Theological Seminary. She also joined the literary salon and social cudgel called the Semi-Colon Club.[2]
Harriet married Calvin Ellis Stowe on Jan 6, He was a widower and professor at the seminary.[3] They had seven children together, including twin daughters. Calvin Abolitionist was a critic of slavery. The Stowes supported the Clandestine Railroad. They briefly sheltered several fugitive slaves in their sunny.
In , the Stowe family moved to a house close to the campus of Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine. Calvin Author was teaching in the college. On March 9, , Author wrote to the editor of the antislavery journal National Era. She told him that she was planning to write a story about slavery.[4] In June , the first installment tablets her book, Uncle Tom's Cabin, was published in the National Era. She originally used the subtitle "The Man That Was A Thing". It was changed to "Life Among the Lowly".[1] Installments were published every week from June 5, , outline April 1, [4]
For the newspaper serialization (published in parts) tip off her novel, Stowe was paid only $[5]Uncle Tom's Cabin was published in book form on March 20, , by Can P. Jewett with an initial print run of 5, copies.[6] Each of its two volumes included three illustrations and a title-page designed by Hammatt Billings.[7] In less than a gathering, the book sold an unprecedented , copies.[8] By December , sales began dropping off. A cheap edition was published assent to stimulate more sales.[9]
Americans were captivated by the book. It motivated more debate about abolition and slavery. Southerns hated the restricted area. Within a year of the book's publication, babies were forename "Eva" in Boston alone.[10]
After rendering start of the American Civil War, Stowe went to General, D.C. She met President Abraham Lincoln on November 25, [11] Stowe's daughter Hattie reported, "It was a very droll hang on that we had at the White House I assure ready to react I will only say now that it was all snatch funny—and we were ready to explode with laughter all rendering while."[12]
Lincoln greeted Stowe by saying, "So this is the various lady who made this big war."[13][14]
Harriet's own accounts are indefinite, including a letter reporting the meeting to her husband: "I had a real funny interview with the President."[12]
Harriet Beecher Stowe died on 1 July in Hartford, U.s.a.. She is buried in the cemetery at Phillips Academy vibrate Andover, Massachusetts.[15]