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Harriet Beecher Stowe was born in 1811 in Litchfield, Connecticut. ... Her father was the well-known Congregational minister Lyman Beecher and his wife was Roxanne Beecher. Harriet’s mother died when she was 5 years old. The loss of her mother left Harriet feeling very sensitive towards others. ... ” The Beechers moved to Cincinnati in 1832 when Lyman Beecher was appointed President of Lane Theological seminary. There, Harriets sister Catharine founded Western Female Institute, where Harriet taught until her 1836 marriage to Calvin Stowe, a Biblical Literature professor at Lane. ... Stowe’s husband and brother helped her escape.
In 1850 Calvin Stowe was appointed at Bowdoin College in Maine, and the entire family returned to the Northeast. ... Harriet chose to write Uncle Toms Cabin because her sister-in-law urged her to use her skills to aid the cause of abolition, “If I could use a pen as you can, I would make this whole nation what an accursed thing slavery is.” Harriet set about writing an argumentative novel illustrating the moral responsibility of the entire nation for the cruel system. ... Although many Northerners considered slavery a political institution for which they had no personal responsibility, Uncle Toms Cabin was becoming a national sensation. ... Uncle Toms Cabin immediately broke all sales records of the day: selling half-a-million copies by 1857. ... They denounced Uncle Tom’s Cabin and its author, “the vile wretch in petticoats. ... The success of Uncle Toms Cabin stemmed largely from its status as a symbol of the abolitionist movement. ... Stowe at a White House reception, Abraham Lincoln said, "So this is the little lady who started this big war!
Approximate Word count = 1293
Approximate Pages = 5.2
(250 words per page double spaced)
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