Harriet Beecher Stowe's Mighty Pen

"The Book That Made This Great War"

Harriet Beecher Stowe is the author of a very influential anti-slave book called, Uncle Tom’s Cabin. According to http://harrietbeecherstowe.net, she was brought up in Connecticut, and did not see slavery growing up. When Harriet learned about the atrocities of slavery she became terrified. She was a an educated woman, who was a teacher at Hartford Female Seminary, where she first discovered her passion for writing. She wrote many essays, articles, and short stories, which were many times published, on Newspapers and journals.

Stowe started to write her most famous and controversial book Uncle Tom’s Cabin in 1851. She was hired to by The National Era’s publishers to write a book that would “paint a word picture of slavery.”

Uncle Tom’s Cabin helped people understand better the realities of slavery. 

It tells a story of a slave, named Tom owned by an evil plantation owner who were used to beating and treating his slaves worst than animals. Tom is a kind man, who is loved by all the slaves in the plantation, and in the end is beaten to death by his owner.

The book became a bestseller around the world, and made Harriet Beecher Stowe famous. Because of this book many people decided to join the anti slave movement for the abolition of Slaves in America. 

Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin had such an impact that it was stated that when she met President Lincoln, he said to her, "So you're the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war."