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Mar 20, 1852:
Uncle Tom's Cabin is published
Harriet Beecher Stowe's anti-slavery novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin, is
published. The novel sold 300,000 copies within three months and
was so widely read that when President Abraham Lincoln met Stowe
in 1862, he reportedly said, "So this is the little lady who made
this big war."
Stowe was born in 1811, the seventh child of the famous
Congregationalist minister Lyman Beecher. She studied at private
schools in Connecticut, then taught in Hartford from 1827 until
her father moved to Cincinnati in 1832. She accompanied him and
continued to teach while writing stories and essays. In 1836, she
married Calvin Ellis Stowe, with whom she had seven children. She
published her first book, Mayflower, in 1843.
While living in Cincinnati, Stowe encountered fugitive slaves and
the Underground Railroad. Later, she wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin in
reaction to recently tightened fugitive slave laws. The book had
a major influence on the way the American public viewed slavery.
The book established Stowe's reputation as a woman of letters.
She traveled to England in 1853, where she was welcomed as a
literary hero. Along with Ralph Waldo Emerson, she became one of
the original contributors to The Atlantic, which launched in
November 1857. In 1863, when Lincoln announced the end of
slavery, she danced in the streets. Stowe continued to write
throughout her life and died in 1896.
73, K.O. and Billie...
...."on the road again".
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