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Harriet was born in Litchfield, Connecticut.
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Harriet enrolled in a school that her older sister taught at. Her sister shaped her into the women she became when she wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin.
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From 1832 to 1850, Harriet lived in Cincinnati, Ohio. Her years in Cincinnati furnished her with many of the characters and incidents for Uncle Tom's Cabin, the most popular book she wrote.
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Lyman Beecher,Harriet's father, was a strong abolitionist and taught his children that slavery was very wrong. Harriet grew up knowing how bad slavery was. This gave her her belief when she wrote Uncle Toms Cabin.
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Harriet married Calvin Stowe, a member of the Lane faculty. They had 7 children together. The kids inspired her to write many more books.
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When the Fugative Salve Law passed, it angred Stowe so she decided to make a change. She started writing Uncle Tom's Cabin.
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After the death of one of her children, Stowe and her family moved to Maine. They became very strong abolitionists and Harriet got inspired to write Uncle Tom's Cabin.
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Stowe wrote her most famous book, Uncle Toms Cabin, that divided became an overnight success. It helped divide the North and South. The south thought of the book as propaganda while the North saw it as eye opening to what the slaves had to go through on a daily bases.
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Stowe wrote A Key to Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1853), documenting her case against slavery. It made an impact on the civil war because it gave her view piont on slavery and where she came from on writing Uncle Toms Cabin.
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Stowe traveled to Washington, D.C., where she met with Abraham Lincoln. Little was known about the meeting but there were rumors that Lincoln greeted Stowe by saying, “So you are the little woman who wrote the book that started this great war.” The meeting of Stowe and Lincoln showed significance of Uncle Tom’s Cabin in the split between North and South.
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Stowe undertook two speaking tours, one along the east coast, the second taking her to the western states. Promoting progressive ideals. She inspired many people with her words and work.
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Harriet eventually died in Hartford, Connecticut at the age of 85.
