Harriet Beecher Stowe
An outstanding author
How she grew up-
Harriet was born in 1811 and died 1869, her mother died when she was five years old. Her and her seven siblings, grew up in ministers. Harriet was one of the earliest girls to encourage girls about their studies in school. She was a very smart and outstanding girl, that everyone liked.
Growing up-
In 1824 Harriet became a teacher at Hartford Female Seminary. She then wrote a children's book in, and later got married in 1832 to Calvin Stowe. They had seven children but only 3 survived them, she then went to Bowdoin college in Brunswick MI.
Her husband-
When Harriet met Calvin she didn't realize he was a amazing professor, he was the one that inspired Harriet's writing career. He made her the good writer she is.
Harriets book-
Harriet Stowe's book was a brilliant book, she made the Northern's slave owners mad when they read her book, her book was about ending slavery. That book started war.
How her life ended.
Harriet Beecher Stowe, had died when she was 85, in 1896. She died in her sleep at her house in Hartford Connecticut. Stowe was most remembered by the most influenced writer in the century, her books made a lot of people happy and made the people want to read her books.
Legacy-
Harriet is known as the best abolitionist, because she wrote Uncle Toms Cabin. Her book had sold over 3,000 copies. Harriet prayed the slaves would die so they wouldn't have to deal with the beating all the time. She did not like people having slaves.She thought Christianity and slavery did not coexist. Stowe pictured slavery as a interlocking social system based on profit.
Uncle Tom's Cabin-
Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote this book because her 1 year old son had died and she felt the motivation to write a inspiring book like she did. It was the first time she had felt was a slave mother had felt like.
Harriet Beecher Stowe