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UNCLE TOMS CABIN - HARRIET BEECHER STOWE TASCHE...

Harriet Beecher Stowe was born in 1811  one of ten children of famous minister Lyman Beecher.
She moved to Ohio in 1832 and was introduced to the slavery debates  marrying the professor and
staunch abolitionist Calvin Stowe with whom she had seven children. In 1850 the Fugitive Slave
Law was passed  punishing anyone who offered runaway slaves food or shelter ¿ she drew on her
anger from this to write Uncle Tom's Cabin   which first appeared in an abolitionist newspaper
and was then published in book form. It was an immediate bestseller  selling ten thousand
copies in its first week of publication and going on to become the second biggest bestseller of
the nineteenth century after the Bible. It was hugely influential in the abolition debate  and
catapulted Stowe into the spotlight. When President Abraham Lincolm met her he is reported to
have described her as ¿the little woman who wrote the book that started this Great War¿. Over
the course of her long career she wrote over thirty books and essays  poems and articles. She
died in 1896.

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