They had to be persuaded that slavery, one way or another, had moral implications for everyone who lived on American soil. But the most fascinating part of his lively and perceptive cultural history is the account of how she did it. But even before the novel was written God helped the process along by having her reared in a family that was the perfect incubator for her talent.
Stowe, born on June 14, , in Litchfield, Connecticut, was the seventh of the nine children of Lyman and Roxana Beecher. Her brother Henry Ward Beecher was born two years later. Harriet was five years old when her mother died of tuberculosis; Beecher, a prominent New England minister, remarried and had four more children. Social reform was the Beecher family business. They produced progressive ministers, educators, writers, and a feminist agitator.
Reading and storytelling captivated Stowe from childhood. She read whatever books were available—even old theological tracts, though she found them somewhat tedious. She was educated at female academies, including the Hartford Female Seminary, which her older sister Catherine had founded and ran.
Stowe herself started teaching there in , but in , when her father became president of Lane Theological Seminary, in Cincinnati, she went along. It was a fateful decision, personally and professionally. Cincinnati was in the Upper South, close to the culture of slavery, and she began to hear stories that would provide templates for her most influential work.
Stowe and his wife, Eliza, became great friends with the Beechers. Eliza died in , and two years later Calvin and Harriet married. Both welcomed the intrusions. The novel that resulted appeared in forty-one weekly installments in a Washington-based anti-slavery newspaper from June, , to March, , when it was published as a book in two volumes.
Stowe was born into a prominent family on June 14, , in Litchfield, Connecticut. Stowe had twelve siblings some were half-siblings born after her father remarried , many of whom were social reformers and involved in the abolitionist movement. But it was her sister Catharine who likely influenced her the most.
In , she founded the Hartford Female Seminary, one of few schools of the era that educated women. Stowe attended the school as a student and later taught there.
Writing came naturally to Stowe, as it did to her father and many of her siblings. In Cincinnati, Stowe taught at the Western Female Institute, another school founded by Catharine, where she wrote many short stories and articles and co-authored a textbook.
With Ohio located just across the river from Kentucky —a state where slavery was legal—Stowe often encountered runaway enslaved people and heard their heart-wrenching stories. This, and a visit to a Kentucky plantation, fueled her abolitionist fervor. The club gave Stowe the chance to hone her writing skills and network with publishers and influential people in the literary world.
Stowe and Calvin married in January He encouraged her writing and she continued to churn out short stories and sketches. Along the way, she gave birth to six children. In , Calvin became a professor at Bowdoin College and moved his family to Maine. That same year, Congress passed the Fugitive Slave Act , which allowed runaway enslaved people to be hunted, caught and returned to their owners, even in states where slavery was outlawed.
The tragedy helped her understand the heartbreak enslaved mothers went through when their children were wrenched from their arms and sold. The Fugitive Slave Law and her own great loss led Stowe to write about the plight of enslaved people. On a transport ship, he saves the life of Eva, a white girl from a wealthy family. In the meantime, Eliza—another enslaved worker from the same plantation as Tom—learns of plans to sell her son Harry.
Eva becomes ill and, on her deathbed, asks her father to free his enslaved workers. She also tells the north of how brave the slaves were to be separated from there familys to go with a slave master,. Harriet Beecher Stowe was not affiliated with the Confederate movement. When Congress had to appease the South in order to get California admitted as free soil, they promised to appoint official slave-catchers to hunt down runaways and return them to their owners.
There is no evidence that statehood for California in is related to Ms. Stowe's motives for writing Uncle Tom's Cabin. It was Harriet Beecher Stowe's sister in law who told her about the Fugitive Slave Act and that perhaps Harriet should use her writing skills to help end slavery.
The Fugitive Slave Law. This caused Harriet Beecher Stowe to write 'Uncle Tom's Cabin', which drew slavery to the attention of large numbers who had not taken much interest in it before. It turned ordinary citizens into unpaid slave-catchers, and provoked Harriet Beecher Stowe into writing 'Uncle Tom's Cabin'. As a prominent Abolitionist, she was so angry about it that she wrote 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' as a protest. The address of the Stowe Free is: 90 Pond St. To show how cruel slavery was.
It was written by Harriet Beecher Stowe to tell people how awful slavery was for her when she was a slave. By dramatising the effects of the Fugitive Slave Act and drawing attention to the Underground Railroad safe-houses for runaway slaves.
It gave others who didn't know anything about slavery in the South an idea of what is happening which leads them into protest. Log in. Add an answer. Want this question answered? Study guides. An abolitionist newspaper, The National Era , originally published the book as a serial in and In , the story was published in book form and sold more than , copies in its first five years in print. It brought slavery to life for many Northerners. It did not necessarily make these people devoted abolitionists, but the book began to move more and more Northerners to consider ending the institution of slavery.
Lincoln purportedly stated, "So you're the little woman who wrote the book that started this Great War! Many Northerners realized how unjust slavery was for the first time. With increasing opposition to slavery, southern slave holders worked even harder to defend the institution. The stage was set for the American Civil War. Toggle navigation. Jump to: navigation , search.
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