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Her birthplace was in Litchfield, CT.
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Harriet's father is inspired my the debate over whether Missouri should be a free or slave state. Harriet is exposed to his forceful preaching against slavery at the age of ten.
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Harriet went to school at Hartford Female Seminary, which was run by her sister.
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Harriet moves to Ohio where she joins the Semi-Colen Club, a literary group, and begins to form her writing skills.
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When Harriet was 21, she moved with her family to Cincinnati, Ohio , where she met and married Calvin Stowe.
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When HArriet and her husband move to Maine, they are very upset about the Fugative Slave Act that applies to this state. It made it illegal to help anyone escape slavery.
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While attending an anti-slavery sermon, she invisions a plot for a novel that shows the cruelty of slavery. She goes home and begins to write.
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Harriet Beecher Stowe published her best known novel, Uncle Toms Cabin. This novel showed the inhumanity of slavery. The book was an instant success in the North. It sold 10,000 copiesin the first week and 300,00 copies in the first year. In great Britain, it sold 1.5 million copies in the first year. The south hated the book and said it was propoganda. The book was a small factor that led to the Civil War.
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Critics criticize Harriet for "overplaying the agony of slavery". The south accuses her of using the book as propoganda. The book gets so popular that she is asked to come to Great Britain to speak about it.
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Harriet moved here because it was a prosperous city, two of her sisters live there, and she always promised herself that she would live there at some point.
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Now that the issue of slavery is resolved, Harriet moved on to the topic of Women's Rights. She wrote The American Woman's Home to make people recognize and respect women's domestic work.
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